I never contributed to Open Source...
I haven’t contributed to open source once so far. I have 5 yrs of work experience in ML engineering. I have this FOMO for not contributing
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Will this affect my future career prospects?
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In order to join product companies (both FAANG & Startups) do I have to have open source contributions?
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If I were to contribute how should I tell recruiters about it (should I mention it in my resume and how should I mention it)
Please share your thoughts
Talking product sense with Ridhi
9 min AI interview5 questions
- No, open source increases chances but no if you don't do it doesn't affect much as most people don't do it
- Startups - no issues at all, faang - os might only help in resume shortlist
- If you have done decent contributions like 10ish PRs then definitely do mention.
7 years of experience here.
Don’t think about it. OS is not for everybody.
That being said do keep looking to solve problems you might face on a day to day basis with code. That could be tooling, maintaining a deprecated library that your work requires, etc.
Might become the next best thing 🤷🏻♂️
Its better not to contribute rather than changing the readme file in Github.
2 years into the ml field same here.