Me too, though not entirely by luck: when I was looking for a job I specifically went for smallish, open source friendly, remote friendly companies. Then I started contributing to the projects they worked on in my free time, met the people at FOSDEM and chatted with them. This made the hiring process much smoother.
So, maybe I was lucky the plan worked, but it was not just a coincidence.
BTW, that company is still in full hiring attitude, in case you like working on free software.
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I'm lucky enough to work for an employer that defaults to open. The project I'm working on right now is open source.
Me too, though not entirely by luck: when I was looking for a job I specifically went for smallish, open source friendly, remote friendly companies. Then I started contributing to the projects they worked on in my free time, met the people at FOSDEM and chatted with them. This made the hiring process much smoother.
So, maybe I was lucky the plan worked, but it was not just a coincidence.
BTW, that company is still in full hiring attitude, in case you like working on free software.