So was curious how does contributing to Open Source look when applying? Does it help a great deal? Is it okay to add it on your Resume even though the scope of your contributions are Doc/extensions instead of core functionality ? I haven’t been luckily enough to work at a org/team that allows or cares for bringing our internal stuff to be added back to open source. So I do my own albeit very small stuff, I’m thinking about ramping it up on the side to see if it can help my long term career.
Is Hortonworks still good after merger?
overrated
Elaborate please
vast majority of companies and hiring managers in SV won’t care. maybe useful along with side projects if you need to get your foot in the door to get an interview, but it won’t make a big difference for actually getting an offer (unless you’re like a core contributor to a major open source project like og kafka)
Open source is useful because you get to actually make contributions. Your code might get shipped to production so you can sort of simulate a real environment where you have to work with others to get your code reviewed and deployed. If you're going up against new grads, probably useful.
Open source or not does not matter, It is the quality and impact of stuff you deliver that matters.
Open source contributions are nice to have. I know a few people who have gotten jobs simply by being an active contributor
What level of contributions? Committer or Contributor? Work on Core functionality?
Well, in one case an engineer at eBay was working on an open source project. A guy from Virginia or something was an active contributor, making pull requests and being active in discussions, and got noticed by the eBay engineer. eBay guy reached out to him and he got an interview and was hired by the team
I've found open source contributions work really well. Ignore these people that say it doesn't matter. In fact, I go so far as to say it even works on the flip side: it helps you evaluate the company. If they don't value or even bother to check out your open source contributions, they probably dont care about code review or have a shitty code review process. Either of these is telling.
It helps if you are applying to an open source company like Hortonworks or red hat. For closed source companies, it won’t matter.