What kind of person works at Apache, GNU, and Wikimedia, non-profit engineering?
Real question, just trying to understand.
Who exactly is the type of person working at these open source companies? For example if you work on apache web server technology, your scope is easily multi-million dollar trajectory in Silicon Valley. Are these people like monks who reject the temptation of money to donate their entire lives in open source?
Or is it more like they are working on it in a side-project capacity, donating their weekends after real job is over?
I understand also that a lot of megacorps like Facebook just donate their platform technology to open source to increase their adoption agenda, which is a win-win. But still, someone needs to be maintaining them on a full-time basis, right?
#apache #opensource #wikimedia #wikipedia #nonprofit #gnu
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Now it’s 2021 and most people are trying to weasel in as PM’s, or grind LC like SAT’s, even if they don’t care about any of it beyond what gets their next promotion.
Hence why even though most of Blind work as SDE’s here, instead of talking shop, it’s mostly TC and job hopping.
Much more interesting work and huuuuuge scope compared to what my friends of similar background were doing at google, from what I could tell. I would be setting up an entire new research/eng area in a very cool field. Ended up not working out because their recruiting is incompetent trash but that’s a story for another post
Also one of the very smartest people I knew in school, international Olympiad gold or silver medalist, worked at Mozilla for like 15 years just because he liked the team and mission