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by richmarr 3037 days ago
> Would ABC be willing to work with me to define a better way...

"Better"

Open source contributions carry a set of particular demographic biases to a hiring process. They skew things towards comparatively well-resourced white men.

There's certainly an argument to say that open source contribution is an indicator of ability, but there are other ways to assess ability which don't introduce such a heavy skew.