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Re:Open-source skills best hope for landing a good job by daniel-warner-x on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @12:58PM (#3291336)
The appeal of hiring someone who is actively involved with open source tech has less to do with heroic coding skills and more to do with identifying someone who is a curious, enthusiastic, and community-minded problem solver.
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Re:Open-source skills best hope for landing a good job by HeyLaughingBoy on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @02:56PM (#3291889)
Exactly! If you have an open source (or any other!) portfolio, you're already ahead of 99% of the people I interview. Odds are that I won't actually look at your code. Instead I'll ask you technical questions during the interview about the project itself: architecture, design, problems you ran into and how you solved them. How you handle bug reports, etc.

Pretty much the same thing I do with other projects on a resume, but much more focused.

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