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I jumped through their hoops once, only to be told that they prefer to hire active contributors from the community. No unpaid internship, no job.
by klyrs 4y ago
I jumped through their hoops once, only to be told that they prefer to hire active contributors from the community. No unpaid internship, no job.
- markshuttle 4y agoEither that was a mistaken position by the hiring lead, or they were just shy to tell you that you were not the best candidate. Either way, my apologies.
- latchkey 4y agoTo be honest, that seems fair given that they are pretty community focused. You might view it as an unpaid internship, but my own contributions to open source and the community have always gotten me jobs. I view it as extracurricular activity... similar to what they pushed us to do in high school for getting into college.
- klyrs 4y agoSure. But I have a full-time job and a family. Combined with the essay's focus on the candidate's high school career, it's a pretty strong signal I'm too old to work there. I'm sure as hell not going to spend a year of my precious spare time on the gamble it'll get me a job where they expect me to continue working off-hours.
- latchkey 4y agoI'm "old" (~50) and I don't take it as age related. It just sounds like you are at a point in your life where you have different priorities and should look for jobs that match those.
- klyrs 4y agoReally? How relevant is your high school experience to your skillset today?
- rglullis 4y agoThe job is for a junior position.
- cmsj 4y agoThe tragic irony there though is that Canonical commits very little engineering effort to contributing to upstream projects that they don't control. They'll fix a few bugs that are affecting customers, but there's no generalised effort to grow the garden they live in.
- corrral 4y agoWhich is a huge difference from Red Hat, which contributes heavily and is very good at leveraging the resulting control of important projects to their advantage. It's why they keep out-maneuvering Canonical, as far as I can tell.
- markshuttle 4y agoRed Hat is 20x the size of Canonical, by revenue. We more than hold our own.
- nix23 4y agoNa it's not about the size, it is that every product canonical build's is closed-source and has "mostly" shitty quality...quite the opposite to redhat.
- markshuttle 4y agoI'm not sure whether you are poorly informed or simply over-generalising.
- nix23 4y ago>simply over-generalising Yes a bit, but: Snap-Store? Ubuntu-One? You always try to create a wallet-garden with proprietary software as the main-repo/server with no additional gains against other opensource OR closedsource competitors. Then you guy's see that it's not adopted as you wished, then you stop supporting it. It happened with Ubuntu-One and it will happen with Snaps. Both times you made the server closed, but the clients open, just stop with that BS, and if you really have a vision at least stick with it (mir, ubuntu touch, unity...) you try to create something, be the leader of it, but at the same time expect that others work on it. If not instantly successful you drop it. Do you really think someone wants to invest time/money in software that is owned and steered by such a "leader"? You know when you presented Ubuntu-touch, i was thinking: Wow that's the end for linux-laptops in like 5 years but no, you dropped it...i was completely disappointed, that was your chance to redefine client/terminal-computing.
- nix23 4y ago>To be honest, that seems fair given that they are pretty community focused. That's Debian not Ubuntu/Canonical.
- markshuttle 4y agoReally.
- nix23 4y agoYes really.