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I generally agree that these things can be a sign of someone I would want to work with, but this only works when it's not something that is outwardly valued by
by emmo 5y ago
I generally agree that these things can be a sign of someone I would want to work with, but this only works when it's not something that is outwardly valued by employers; something that people just do because they like doing it.
As soon as it is it becomes essential for people to pretend they give a damn about participating in communities, everything goes to hell.
- foxyv 5y agoThere is nothing that made me less interested in community work than the idea I was doing it for any reason other than just being helpful. I spent a lot of time doing service projects with my two brother's scout troops. I loved cleaning up trash, restoring museums, re-painting fire hydrants, removing invasive castor bean, building park benches and fire pits, and most of all was just helping people who needed a hand moving or something. All of those things were awesome, but once it started becoming something like a fund raiser for some corrupt charity, or working on floats for the Rose Parade it became just another lame job. Doing community service for a resume strikes me as disgusting. I would hate every second. It taints the main reason I'm doing it. To feel like I'm a member of a community. Not just a cog in a machine.
- zaptheimpaler 5y agoAbsolutely. The same dynamic played out with open source contributions and algorithmic problem solving over recent years. Anything that becomes a widely used well-known metric will eventually be gamed and devolve into leetcode maximizing by candidates. It shows the value of keeping hiring criteria somewhat opaque (which sucks in other ways).