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No one cares about FOSS experience. You’re lucky if they even visit your GitHub/Lab/Berg at all and even luckier if they look at anything past your heatmap. Fa
by jimbob45 1y ago
No one cares about FOSS experience. You’re lucky if they even visit your GitHub/Lab/Berg at all and even luckier if they look at anything past your heatmap.
Fact is, if FOSS experience counted for anything, then those charged with hiring would also possess the capacity to understand that C# and Java experience are nearly 1:1. Sadly, it doesn’t and they don’t.
- jonathanlydall 1y agoAs someone who is very experienced primarily as a C# dev, I wouldn’t say Java is “nearly 1:1”. At a syntax level they’re practically the same and they both use GC, but in terms of ecosystem they’re very different. It might not seem like it to people who are just starting out at programming, but syntax is probably the easiest part of it. Sure, I would probably be productive in Java if I had to start using it fully tomorrow, but it would take me months or years to get that same nuanced knowledge of its ecosystem to be as effective with it as I am with C#.
- smlavine 1y agoHaving been through interviews lately for mid-level CS internship positions, I'd say that having FOSS contributions on my resume that I was able to discuss extensively was indeed a factor in both attaining an interview and ultimately an internship.