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It might not necessarily work everywhere, but here is my experience. I live in Italy and work for the US. The company I work for specializes in a well known fre
by giomasce 4y ago
It might not necessarily work everywhere, but here is my experience. I live in Italy and work for the US. The company I work for specializes in a well known free software project. I contributed a few patches to that project, then met a few people from the project at FOSDEM over a beer and spent a couple of pleasant afternoons with them. I then applied and was given a technical test, but I have good reasons to believe that those patches and beers were crucial in later receiving an offer.
- Bakary 4y agoThere's kind of a bias in that hiring decisions based on social connections have a bad reputation by default. This bias is of course based on experience and natural intuition about how corruption sets in. However, when you hire someone who is going to interact with you many hours out of every day, wouldn't it make sense to find someone you get along with? I know I am the most productive when the completion of my tasks can help coworkers I get along with very well.