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by edmondlau 3093 days ago
If there are engineers you highly respect on your team, their code is a great place to start.

Otherwise, many top tech companies now open source software that they've written internally, oftentimes with their own websites. And there is also a growing trend for them to actually maintain the software they open source as opposed to just throwing it over the fence.

Think of companies that have a strong engineering brand, and then just search for what open source software they're released. Pick whatever seems most aligned with your interests.

Some examples:

Google: https://opensource.google.com/projects/list/featured?languag... Facebook: https://code.facebook.com/projects/#backend Stripe: https://stripe.com/open-source Airbnb: http://airbnb.io/projects/