Ask HN: How to get back in employment market after working on side projects?

Re:Ask HN: How to get back in employment market after workin... by sidlls on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @09:49AM (#27528482)

That's almost as poor a signal as FAANG's hazing rituals. It sends a certain signal, too. That signal, to me, isn't "this person's company really supports open source!" The signal is, "we want to select developers who are willing to produce code for literally no compensation." Think about that.

Also, the vast majority of developers don't have open source contributions or projects worth pointing to. Further, it strikes me that the ones that do have such projects can be much more selective about which company they work for than companies can be about them.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get back in employment market after workin... by ludamad on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @10:38AM (#27529012)

I have a mass of "open source" that I churned out while I had more free time. Trouble is it's quite out of date with my skills, especially since being busy at work. I still do tinker and release rushed code, but I don't know I want to be judged on taking someone's code and gutting it for my purposes

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Re:Ask HN: How to get back in employment market after workin... by throwaway675309 on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @05:50PM (#27533862)

Do you have a backing statistic for "the vast majority of developers" or are you speaking purely anecdotally?

Furthermore you're making an assumption that anyone who has code on their github produced it for no compensation, as if that was their sole motivation.

Maybe it was a previous project, maybe they open sourced a side project that at one point made income, or maybe it was something they did as an experiment or for purely personal reasons and compensation had zero relevant bearing.

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