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Re:Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off) by runarberg on Saturday November 26, 2022 @04:40PM (#33757058)
Please don’t do this. We don’t need workers to do our work for free. It will make it harder for the rest of us to find jobs (or even getting paid for our current one).

If you want to contribute to open source, do so with the mind that you are helping a shared community (or maybe just for fun). Don’t do it because you think it will help you get a job (I’m not even sure parent is correct that it will).

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Re:Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off) by mancerayder on Saturday November 26, 2022 @11:02PM (#33760194)
>Don’t do it because you think it will help you get a job (I’m not even sure parent is correct that it will).

As a hiring manager, the open source projects and blogs people sell on their CVs is impressive if it looks like self-motivated interest, and annoying if it looks thinly self-promotive. The two inherently intersect but when it skews to the extreme of self-selling it isn't taken as seriously from what I observe.

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