In the worse case management thinks the dev didn't do anything at all and are less likely to assign similar work in the future. In my experience, yes, companie

In the worse case management thinks the dev didn't do anything at all and are less likely to assign similar work in the future. In my experience, yes, companies love any way of gaining prestige and contributing to OS is one of them. For some devs it's a strong positive signal when a company they interview for contributes to OS. There are also performance reviews to be done, where it's a positive to be able to say you/ a dev you manage achieved x.