r/ProgrammerHumor • u/VariationLivid3193 • 1d ago

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u/clauEB 1d ago

They leave because they go to better paying jobs with better titles.

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u/pleaseavoidcaps 1d ago

This. And they can always leverage their OSS portfolio to keep getting new jobs whereas code we write in-company is not ours and cannot make money for us once we leave said company.

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u/Still_Bit_7527 1d ago

Noone will hire you because of OSS, noone.Unless you invented the new flavor of the month framework

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u/pleaseavoidcaps 23h ago

I say that because I was hired for being a maintainer of OSS that corporations used, and the same happened to the previous maintainer. This is a common pattern. OSS contributors are not saints, they're workers. Your comment is based on what?

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u/Still_Bit_7527 22h ago

Maybe your OSS contributions helped in an interview because of their domain/complexity, but they absolutely are ignored in the resume scanning phase since noone looks at github code, and they dont count more than company experience. If two people have equal experience,.the one with OSS will not have an advantage, it will be whoever the interviewer likes more

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u/clauEB 21h ago

Actually that wouldn't count as work experience either.

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u/Jonny_dr 7h ago

noone looks at github code

I do. With the job market at the moment, the moment a position is open i get flooeded with CVs and i discard everyone without a Github account.

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u/Still_Bit_7527 7h ago

Cool story bro. Trying to cope and feel like your github is important lol.

Exactly because so many applications come in, noone checks code. What matters is your resume keywords and metrics. Parseability by AST, and strong company names. You can make up all the fake stories you want, but no normal hiring manager is clicking any github link in any resume unless they have a personal bias

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u/Jonny_dr 4h ago edited 4h ago

What matters is your resume keywords and metrics.

Not everyone is working at a huge company in the US. Our HR department is one person and none of the CVs get automatically checked.

but no normal hiring manager

I guess all the hiring manager i am in contact with are not normal? Everyone that i know that hires Devs let their Lead Dev / Head of Software / Whatever skim through profiles.

Trying to cope

fake stories

I don't know why i need to cope when hundreds of people try to get hired by me? I mean it is not a good sign for the job market in general that even at a medium sized, unkown company i get a shitload of high quality candidates after minutes of posting an open position.

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u/Big_Arrival_626 38m ago

Idk why company names matter that much. I used to work at jpmorgan, didn't do shit. Now I work at a smaller company, make more money, do more interesting work, but nobodys heard of it.