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Cool. I will add this: I don't work for a FAANG, but I do work for a "Fortune 50" sized mega-corp, and I've been doing this stuff well more than 20 years now. And based on my experience, I would say that there certainly are some companies where OSS contributions would be weighted pretty strongly in terms of making you a more desirable candidate (depending on the project, the scope of your contributions, etc). But OTOH, OSS is probably not a panacea, unless you're looking to join a company whose main product itself is OSS (eg, Red Hat, Alfresco, Mongo, etc). To me, that's one more argument for "Do OSS, but only if you see doing so as its own reward." It might help you get a job, but there's no guarantee.