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> - Major contributions to a big open source project: I assume these people get hired easily. Nope; it depends on market demand for the project. I know a guy w
by wayoutthere 5y ago
> - Major contributions to a big open source project: I assume these people get hired easily.
Nope; it depends on market demand for the project. I know a guy who was a major contributor to OpenStack for years. He’s an E5 at a telecom and is having a hard time finding a better job. Turns out there aren’t really that many places with huge OpenStack footprints.
The one place it might matter is in consulting. And only because it’s a good way to signal to clients that you know what you’re doing.
> Recruiters are not dumb.
When it comes to hiring tech talent they kind of are. They usually have no idea what an engineer actually does, so they’re checking boxes off a list the hiring manager gave them.
- hocuspocus 5y agoThat's a bit sad, but isn't it at least partially due to OpenStack's decline? And yes I've come across bad recruiters, but this is a self-solving issue: either external or internal, they'll quickly be unemployed if they don't realize what expectations are clearly unrealistic in a buyer's market.
- wayoutthere 5y agoYeah, I guess my point is that unless the open source project you contributed to is in high demand itself, your contributions don’t really mean much from a recruiting standpoint.