Maybe 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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notpushkin 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

“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

	▲	Aurornis 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Please see his follow up comments years later where he reflects on the situation and agrees that he should not have been hired at that time. He posted that in the heat of the moment while angry, but they didn’t literally reject him for a single LeetCode problem. He admits that he was just not at a point where being hired into a FAANG job would have been a good move. That one Tweet has fueled years of internet rage from people who didn’t get the whole story, though.

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Aurornis 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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.