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What part of Canada are you in? In Montreal, many companies routinely ask if a developer has open source projects, or code samples. If a company doesn't do th
by danielharan 18y ago
What part of Canada are you in?
In Montreal, many companies routinely ask if a developer has open source projects, or code samples.
If a company doesn't do this they are hiring based on resume and interview only, rather than seeing actual code.
- huhtenberg 18y ago> or code samples That's exactly my point. No one here (at least in my experience) focuses on open source contributions per se. The end goal generally is to look at some code that a candidate have written, not necessarily the open source one. Of course there are exceptions. For certain positions you will get a big bonus for any contributions to a specific high-profile open source project. But this has less to do with a code you wrote and more with domain knowledge you picked up along the way.
- neilc 18y agoI valued open source contributions highly when I was interviewing candidates: it demonstrates that you're someone who is passionate about programming and enjoys building things in your free time. That's exactly the sort of candidate that I think a lot of startups ought to be looking to hire. But I think the question of open source contribution is completely different from "show us some code." The latter is intended to get a look at some of the actual work you've produced; the former is just another part of your work experience, formal or informal.