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by MrPowers 1913 days ago
Companies should have different hiring processes for prolific open source code contributors and folks that don't do open source (presuming they want to hire both).

There are plenty of amazing developers that don't to open source and are great employees.

Other devs have extensive open source code. It doesn't make sense to give popular open source devs coding tests. Open their GitHub account, see their popular repos, see how they communicate on issues, etc.

The most powerful teams I've worked on have a mix on OSS devs and folks that only do closed source work. Hiring both is the best from what I've seen.