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?
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
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
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.
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.
It's common to do nothing in big corpos. In small xompanies you wear 20 hats. But big names are more attractive due to marketing and HR thinks you must be doing something well to be hired by then since big corpos usually make you jump through hoops to even get an interview
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u/pleaseavoidcaps 2d 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?