alt Hacker NewsMaybe it can happen, but ask the people maintaining open source projects long term, how much it helped them pass silly leetcode interviews, which companies insist must be done, even if you have a golden track record.
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Aurornis • 09/02/2025
I know people maintaining open source projects long term and getting FAANG adoption is a dream come true. That’s why I posted it.
I’ve also worked at companies where people who write OSS have been recruited with comp packages that would be hard to get even at FAANG because their OSS work was crucial to the company.
“Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.”
https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768