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This 1 weird trick of doing free work and hoping they 1) have headcount 2) pay attention / see value in your free work. > … you are test driving each other. U
by ctvo 4y ago
This 1 weird trick of doing free work and hoping they 1) have headcount 2) pay attention / see value in your free work.
> … you are test driving each other.
Unless you think the way they run their open source projects is the way their entire company works, you’re really not.
- dan-robertson 4y agoIf you need to practice leetcode like things for interviews, aren’t you also doing free ‘work’? Only in that case it’s more proof-of-work than something actually useful. Perhaps one could point at the openly viewable results when talking to other companies. The strategy strikes me as a little weird but not crazy. If you like open source already, it might make a lot of sense.
- culi 4y ago> If you need to practice leetcode like things for interviews, aren’t you also doing free ‘work’? Only in that case it’s more proof-of-work than something actually useful. This might be true, but at least the skills are easy to show off on a resume and will help you with other interviews. Open-source contributions might vary drastically in nature and might be harder to leverage as experience/proof of skill
- mettamage 4y agoMany tech interviews at startups are simply: "talk about a project you once did :)"
- floweronthehill 4y agoWhere do you find these startups? My experience with startup interviews is FAANGesque leetcode + system design questions.
- AviationAtom 4y agoNot all is lost if you don't end up getting a job with them. Open source work makes for great resume bullets.
- kristopolous 4y agoYes, this is all a good disclaimer. YMMV like with everything else. There's no guarantees anywhere in this strategy. But there's nice correlations