| Any resumé screening and interviewing process boils down to only 3 essential questions: - How well can you do this work?
- Will you blend in (can you endure our work environment)?
- Is it easy to work with you (you are not a dick, are you)? So get over it, everything you do online IS more real than your resumé. Why? Because we are an online company and your online reputation is more important than a single document traditionally written in a corporate mumbo-jumbo style where the author tend to exaggerate his accomplishments. When I ask for your github profile, I'm not asking for free work - FOSS is not about free work. I want to see your pull requests. Why? Because from time to time we do pull requests, and do it not because we are good Samaritans but out of sheer greed. We use an open source technology stack. We push it's boundaries, we find bugs, we fix bugs. We find components lacking, we implement the desired feature and contribute back. We port code from other languages or create it from scratch and open source because it is cheaper than maintaining a closed source library. Is it free work? No, it is cooperation, and it makes sense economically. Do you have a patch accepted in a high profile FOSS project? This means: - You are doing serious work based on FOSS stacks
- You have some communication skills
- You have coding skills, can write tests and documentation
- You can fix bugs and implement new features I want to see the issues you open: are they well documented, with reproducible test cases? I want to see your stack overflow profile: do you write good questions and good answers? Because a good question is 90% of a good answer, and good answers is what our customers demand. Do you write really odd blog posts or troll around in online forums? Sorry, I guess you will not fit our work environment. |