I personally know a few at Mozilla who used to be regular contributors to Firefox. And I know a somebody else who used to contribute to the Linux kernel before

I personally know a few at Mozilla who used to be regular contributors to Firefox. And I know a somebody else who used to contribute to the Linux kernel before they eventually ended up at RedHat. I don't know if it's because of the contribution that they got hired, but it could have been a factor. ----------------------- Also there's that tangentially related story about Homebrew creator not getting a job at Google, so there's that. [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15981338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15981338