4 ms·

Absolutely no one looks at random open source contributions or your personal repo. They barely look at resumes for more than six seconds. Yes, my open source

Absolutely no one looks at random open source contributions or your personal repo. They barely look at resumes for more than six seconds. Yes, my open source contributions got me a job the year before last as the second highest contributor to a popular in its niche official “AWS Solution”. But no one cared about my other open source projects that I highlighted that were also well documented, solved a unique need and were on the official “AWS Samples” GitHub repository.

esseph 1y ago
Some of us Actually Do when hiring, yes.
__d 1y ago
Anecdata: my employer hires C++ programmers, and absolutely looks at a FOSS contributions portfolio.
- JustExAWS 1y ago
  So you expect your candidates to work everyday and spend time after work contributing to open source? Shouldn’t that tell me something about the WLB at the company?
  - __d 1y ago
    No, it means that if you have a public history of both code and team interaction, it’s something that will influence our hiring decision. It’s not necessary to have one, nor to maintain it. But for a recent graduate, it’s one way to demonstrate competence both technically and socially.
    - __d 1y ago
      Or, for the OP, a way to maybe get hired without a degree.
      - scarface_74 1y ago
        And people are acting like it’s still 2010 and not 2025. Today’s market is a lot more competitive with fewer jobs and less need of junior developers period. What company is going to hire a junior developer with no experience and no degree over a slightly more expensive one with experience and a degree?
Ancapistani 1y ago
> Absolutely no one looks at random open source contributions I’m sure it’s far from the most common modality, but this is obviously false. I’ve personally referred people to apply at my company based on their PRs to F/OSS stuff, and at least a couple off the top of my head have been hired.
- scarface_74 1y ago
  And if you are one in one hundred maybe even one in a thousand, would a random developer looking for a job be better off doing open source work and getting hired for one of your few openings or “grinding leetCode”? And “a couple” is statistically so close to zero, it might as well be zero.
  - Ancapistani 1y ago
    At no point did I suggest that it was a primary means of hiring. It’s certainly not “absolutely no one”, though. > And “a couple” is statistically so close to zero, it might as well be zero. No, it’s three that got hired (me and two others I hired), with a self-selected sample of one. Certainly not statistically significant, but it’s also far from nothing. I wouldn’t recommend anyone grind leetcode. There are plenty of jobs that done’t require it, and IMO those are the ones you likely want anyhow.
    - scarface_74 1y ago
      Yes unless you want a job from one of the companies that pay top of market. Who wants $160K+ straight out of school anyway?

esseph 1y ago

Some of us Actually Do when hiring, yes.

__d 1y ago

Anecdata: my employer hires C++ programmers, and absolutely looks at a FOSS contributions portfolio.

JustExAWS 1y ago
So you expect your candidates to work everyday and spend time after work contributing to open source? Shouldn’t that tell me something about the WLB at the company?
- __d 1y ago
  No, it means that if you have a public history of both code and team interaction, it’s something that will influence our hiring decision. It’s not necessary to have one, nor to maintain it. But for a recent graduate, it’s one way to demonstrate competence both technically and socially.
  - __d 1y ago
    Or, for the OP, a way to maybe get hired without a degree.
    - scarface_74 1y ago
      And people are acting like it’s still 2010 and not 2025. Today’s market is a lot more competitive with fewer jobs and less need of junior developers period. What company is going to hire a junior developer with no experience and no degree over a slightly more expensive one with experience and a degree?

Ancapistani 1y ago

> Absolutely no one looks at random open source contributions I’m sure it’s far from the most common modality, but this is obviously false. I’ve personally referred people to apply at my company based on their PRs to F/OSS stuff, and at least a couple off the top of my head have been hired.

scarface_74 1y ago
And if you are one in one hundred maybe even one in a thousand, would a random developer looking for a job be better off doing open source work and getting hired for one of your few openings or “grinding leetCode”? And “a couple” is statistically so close to zero, it might as well be zero.
- Ancapistani 1y ago
  At no point did I suggest that it was a primary means of hiring. It’s certainly not “absolutely no one”, though. > And “a couple” is statistically so close to zero, it might as well be zero. No, it’s three that got hired (me and two others I hired), with a self-selected sample of one. Certainly not statistically significant, but it’s also far from nothing. I wouldn’t recommend anyone grind leetcode. There are plenty of jobs that done’t require it, and IMO those are the ones you likely want anyhow.
  - scarface_74 1y ago
    Yes unless you want a job from one of the companies that pay top of market. Who wants $160K+ straight out of school anyway?