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CEO of Zomato doesn't believe in contributing to open source, are they serious?

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Re: CEO of Zomato doesn't believe in contributing to open source, are they serious?

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Original Prompt:

Tech Team related. Why do you guys have to enforce 8.30am to 8pm sort of timing? Do you really expect a good developer to be able to be in the zone for 12 hours straight? I know there's no strict stay till 8pm rule, maybe even there is. But it is clearly frowned upon if a guy regularly leaves early.

Why do you guys not use team communication tools? People in tech team do not know what all is being worked on inside zomato itself. Agreed, one guy would have his own task to deal with but awareness of what all is going on at least in the tech team helps in increasing the feeling of being connected with the team.

The culture in tech team is toxic. Contributing to open source isn't even considered. In office hackathons, people are expected to work on zomato related things only. How do you expect great developers to want to work in such environment? Great developers almost always tend to have great side projects. With the kind of timings and environment that is being provided, this is simply not possible while being in Zomato tech team.

Re: CEO of Zomato doesn't believe in contributing to open source, are they serious?

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Original Prompt: Tech Team related. Why do you guys have to enforce 8.30am to 8pm sort of timing? Do you really expect a good developer to be able to be in the zone for 12 hours straight? I know there's no strict stay till 8pm rule, maybe even there is. But it is clearly frowned upon if a guy regularly leaves early. Why do you guys not use team communication tools? People in tech team do not know what all is being wo…

For me his response to contributing to Open Source (we don't have the spare developer resources) is more acceptable than his response to the concerns about employees being expected to work 12 hours a day ("Come talk to me in person", "we don't force anyone to work here.")

Re: CEO of Zomato doesn't believe in contributing to open source, are they serious?

#8
Is time to contribute to open-source really a factor when deciding on place of employment? Seems overly idealistic and unreasonable for start-ups given the serious budget and time restrictions.

I don't understand the outrage in the submission's title.

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