I am against contributing to open source just to show chops especially if it means contributing to $corp’s repo to try and impress $corp into giving a job. Just

I am against contributing to open source just to show chops especially if it means contributing to $corp’s repo to try and impress $corp into giving a job. Just contribute (if you want to) to what is fun or gets you curious. As for bang for buck: more applications, more interview question prep > FOSS contributions from a standing start. If you invented clojure or something then that is something else. But you probably didn’t.