It's no longer enough to just contribute to open source(write.as)

3 pointsby garn8107 hours ago3 comments

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niemenghui6 hours ago
Agree contribution that still actually matters
colesantiago7 hours ago
It really never was.
Most people don't contribute to open source, let alone donate to those projects.
It was really just a labour of love of people putting their personal projects on social coding sites like GitHub and throwaway projects.
The resume padders were filtered out in the interview process with leetcode anyway since employers, HR and the decision makers don't care about your OSS contributions or your GitHub.
And they certainly won't care now that AI is here.
Extensive relevant experience (and your network) is a much better signal than open source in the age of AI unfortunately.
- iugtmkbdfil8347 hours ago
  Yeah, but as with most things that are hard to measure, contributions were a proxy that HR and corporates could wrap their heads around ( even though now we can easily see how much it can be gamed ). For a person like me, it kinda sucks. I am a believer, but looking at my github corporate would not deem worthy of their time.
  Naturally, this means personal connection will be even more important now.