I have an open source project that absolutely got me hired to Intuit years ago.
The biggest win of doing open source work is that it’s more challenging than corporate work. You build product management skills and really learn to focus on objective quality factors and continuous improvement.
At this point in my career I have passed the tipping point and my open source work is making me less compatible to many of my corporate JavaScript peers. I am not interested in easy, dicking around with unnecessary configuration madness, and prefer to write original code. I am less interested in learning how to write code and more interested in data structures and algorithm design. Contrarily JavaScript is a low barrier of entry field where many newer developers have little or regard for automation practices compared to various other concerns.
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I have an open source project that absolutely got me hired to Intuit years ago.
The biggest win of doing open source work is that it’s more challenging than corporate work. You build product management skills and really learn to focus on objective quality factors and continuous improvement.
At this point in my career I have passed the tipping point and my open source work is making me less compatible to many of my corporate JavaScript peers. I am not interested in easy, dicking around with unnecessary configuration madness, and prefer to write original code. I am less interested in learning how to write code and more interested in data structures and algorithm design. Contrarily JavaScript is a low barrier of entry field where many newer developers have little or regard for automation practices compared to various other concerns.