I know a person who got a great paying job at a streaming service company, by working on a set of open source tools heavily used by company. He didn't have to d

I know a person who got a great paying job at a streaming service company, by working on a set of open source tools heavily used by company. He didn't have to do any sort of technical interview. Now he works on those open source tools full time remotely, and got about a 70% pay increase.