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by lolinder 1094 days ago
> either companies that have their main products as open-source, or companies that make significant contributions

These two categories seem pretty distinct, and the second is pretty nebulous. What does "significant" mean here, and how well does that translate to the odds of me working on an open source project? It's unclear why Netflix and Cloudflare are included but, say, Facebook and Microsoft aren't.

If you're going to include both, it would be nice if there were a way to distinguish and filter between these two categories. I really like the idea of being able to see all the open source jobs out there, but having Netflix at the top of the list makes me unsure how many of these companies are truly open-source-first.

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Good point. The code used to have a "work directly on open-source" checkbox per job, but it's hidden for now because I wasn't sure about the edge cases: people can be asked to switch projects later, some companies have their main product as open-source but the position is not directly related (eg: devops), etc. Perhaps I should bring it back and see how it does. Thank you for the feedback.