I'll say it: why would they pay him if he's already doing the work for free from their PoV?
Oh, they ignored him. I am not sure if that puts the company in a better light.
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Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#12In my opinion, lots of open source was developed as a sort of portfolio to get hired. From 2019 onward, my impression is that your open source projects (regardless of how much they are used) matters less and less and it’s about HR mysteriously picking you up in their process than anything else. I think, now, your open source portfolio matters exactly nothing in the decision to get hired.
I remember back in 2014-2019, it was hard and competitive to contribute to open source projects as they were tightly guarded. There are many projects that I use now in package.json that are looking for a maintainer. A complete 180 flip.
My guess is that real free open source will disappear in a few years and what will remain are open source projects monetized by some business somehow.
It’s a sad reality but that’s what the current people at the top have decided today.
Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#13Reminds me of the guy who created Homebrew being rejected by Google for failing some silly Leetcode puzzle.
Iirc the homebrew guy did at least get an interview
Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#14Reminds me of the guy who created Homebrew being rejected by Google for failing some silly Leetcode puzzle.
Homebrew is “just” a package manager, not the core of part of Google. They could rip it out overnight and won’t even notice it. And Google gave him a fair shot.
This guy got rejected by some automated system without even interview.
Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#15Reminds me of the guy who created Homebrew being rejected by Google for failing some silly Leetcode puzzle.
Or the FastAPI creator not having enough years of experience with FastAPI according to a job posting.
That is the most absolutely absurd wild damn story that I have written.
Care to provide links...
How can interviewers be such stupid, the fastapi creator had the MOST experience with it, he created it..
Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#16Ah, it seems their AI powered cover letter review system isn't up to scratch.
Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#17I'll say it: why would they pay him if he's already doing the work for free from their PoV? Oh, they ignored him. I am not sure if that puts the company in a better light.
Implementing the features they would want to prioritize. Just like most companies hiring OSS maintainers.
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#18I'll say it: why would they pay him if he's already doing the work for free from their PoV? Oh, they ignored him. I am not sure if that puts the company in a better light.
Because
- They can decide more easily what he works on
- They know he loves this work and is very capable of doing it
- They can own his output, a competitive advantage
- He will likely cost them ~nothing anyway
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Not for any job: > Through a friend of a friend, I found out that Anthropic had an open position in the team implementing the secret, unreleased feature of Claude Desktop using enigo. I wrote a cover letter and sent out my application.
It's quite likely (and not necessarily bad) that they didn't really read the application. Most obviously, if they already chose someone but didn't close the deal yet, it's common for listings to still be up, but no-one will look at new applications unless their choice falls through.
Never assume a rejection is about you personally.
Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or the FastAPI creator not having enough years of experience with FastAPI according to a job posting.
That is the most absolutely absurd wild damn story that I have written. Care to provide links... How can interviewers be such stupid, the fastapi creator had the MOST experience with it, he created it..
https://x.com/tiangolo/status/1281946592459853830
Edit: note that I wrote "according to a job posting". It's not the same as the situation in the parent comment.