[sireat]

For some reason this does not seem as exploitative as most of the interview circuit elsewhere.

Over the years I've read/heard plenty of stories (here on HN and elsewhere) of people getting hired for their open source contributions to some stack that some company is using/developing.

So here I am willing to give some slack here to Qdrant. They get extremely qualified candidates who can jump right in, and candidates get told the rules of the game up front. It feels fine?

Surely much better than fake take home tests, whiteboard tests, leetcode onslaught, and 7 layers of interviews.

So if creating a high quality repo is 60-90% of your job interview that seems pretty good. As long as they are not ghosting high quality contributions that is.

I will change my view if they get 20 high quality connectors out of this and noone gets hired from that pool of candidates.