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Re:The reason people burn out on open source by Iftheshoefits on Sunday December 07, 2014 @09:05AM (#8712179)
Your comment and (as of this comment, anyway) the thread of replies is one reason why I think using a person's opensource contributions as part of an evaluation of their suitability for employment is a bit ridiculous. There is a whole range of completely arbitrary and subjective "measures" around such contributions, and they end up being no better filters than any of the other (flawed) filters people use to evaluate such things these days.

It may have held (marginally greater) value at some point, but at this point it is just another bullet point clueless HR managers and petty managers can stick next to the "alphabet soup" in their job descriptions.

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Re:The reason people burn out on open source by wahnfrieden on Sunday December 07, 2014 @09:17AM (#8712211)
This is overly cynical. It can be a meaningful positive indicator, and simply not a data point if a candidate lacks one.
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Re:The reason people burn out on open source by Iftheshoefits on Sunday December 07, 2014 @09:46AM (#8712298)
That's overly charitable. It can be a meaningful positive indicator, but only the same way that any other work experience can be. Compare that with the proliferation of requirements for experience in specific languages rather than for specific (but more general) engineering ability, and I think my cynical take isn't overly cynical at all.
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