I'm a skilled open-source maintainer, but I can't interview due to my disability
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Re: I'm a skilled open-source maintainer, but I can't interview due to my disability
#2Do you have a link to the repo?
Re: I'm a skilled open-source maintainer, but I can't interview due to my disability
#3Is the author in the US? There are laws about this. Here's one resource:
https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/job-applicants-and-ada
I have no idea how that turns out in practice.
Re: I'm a skilled open-source maintainer, but I can't interview due to my disability
#4To the author: what are your results from the HN “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
Also, have you tried working with external (not for a specific company) recruiters? It’s free for you, and when one doesn’t produce results you can easily try another.
Finally, have you tried reaching out to maintainers of commercially-popular open-source projects? They might know of related jobs at the companies that are the chief sponsors of those packages.
Re: I'm a skilled open-source maintainer, but I can't interview due to my disability
#5To the author: what are your results from the HN “Who wants to be hired?” threads? Also, have you tried working with external (not for a specific company) recruiters? It’s free for you, and when one doesn’t produce results you can easily try another. Finally, have you tried reaching out to maintainers of commercially-popular open-source projects? They might know of related jobs at the companies that are the chief spo…
Thank you for the response! I haven't tried any of these. I very much appreciate the suggestions. (And, thank you for taking the time to email, too.) :)
Re: I'm a skilled open-source maintainer, but I can't interview due to my disability
#6Is the author in the US? There are laws about this. Here's one resource: https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/job-applicants-and-ada I have no idea how that turns out in practice.
Canada! Thank you for responding and sharing this, though. :)
Re: I'm a skilled open-source maintainer, but I can't interview due to my disability
#7Do you have a link to the repo?
I'm hesitant to ID myself in connection to this blog post. I try to lead a very quiet/private online life. Thank you for the response, though. :)
Re: I'm a skilled open-source maintainer, but I can't interview due to my disability
#8I'm just here to say that I face many of the same challenges as you and don't have much to offer except to say that it will always be hard for us.
Re: I'm a skilled open-source maintainer, but I can't interview due to my disability
#9Do you have a link to the repo?
I'm hesitant to ID myself in connection to this blog post. I try to lead a very quiet/private online life. Thank you for the response, though. :)
> I'm hesitant to ID myself in connection to this blog post.
That's fine.
Are you getting paid for whatever job you are doing in the university? Do you appear in the list of authors of the paper?
Re: I'm a skilled open-source maintainer, but I can't interview due to my disability
#10No post body was provided.