It goes the other way too. I expect this opinion to be unfavorable with the HN crowd, but let me explain:
Spending your free time contributing to open source projects generally indicates that you're not a money driven person. This is anecdotal, but every software engineer that I have hired who contributes heavily to open source ended up being a huge pain in the neck in a corporate structure. The reason is that corporations don't have emotions and in general they don't have morals. They are money generation machines with schizophrenic personalities. If you're money driven, you do well there.
What inevitably would happen with open source people is that they would become upset about something the company was or wasn't doing. In one case it was even the fact that the company refused to open source a project that they felt should be open sourced. As a manager I'd say they were high maintenance employees. They would also often go rogue in the name of "doing the right thing".
Believe it or not, I see open source types as often incompatible with corporate jobs and when I see a resume that has a big list of open source contributions it concerns me.
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It goes the other way too. I expect this opinion to be unfavorable with the HN crowd, but let me explain:
Spending your free time contributing to open source projects generally indicates that you're not a money driven person. This is anecdotal, but every software engineer that I have hired who contributes heavily to open source ended up being a huge pain in the neck in a corporate structure. The reason is that corporations don't have emotions and in general they don't have morals. They are money generation machines with schizophrenic personalities. If you're money driven, you do well there.
What inevitably would happen with open source people is that they would become upset about something the company was or wasn't doing. In one case it was even the fact that the company refused to open source a project that they felt should be open sourced. As a manager I'd say they were high maintenance employees. They would also often go rogue in the name of "doing the right thing".
Believe it or not, I see open source types as often incompatible with corporate jobs and when I see a resume that has a big list of open source contributions it concerns me.