New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Have you ever been hired because of open-source contributions?

Ask HN: Have you ever been hired because of open-source contributions?
6 by mothhabit | 1 comments on Hacker News.
One of the most publicized advantages of contributing to open-source projects are the (supposed) better odds at landing jobs. I think that people shouldn't be contributing to open-source just to land better jobs and then forget it, but I ask myself if that premise is true in the first place. Have you ever been hired because of some open-source contribution? Or do you know someone who was?

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