Comment by scarface_74
Comment by scarface_74 5 days ago
As much as I rail against it, I realize the privileged position I’m in now as a 50 year old, strong experience and a stint at BigTech on my resume.
If I were just starting out in my career, I would be spending whatever time it took to get into BigTech and adjacent companies - yes “grind leetCode and work for a FAANG” (tm r/cscareerquestions) and I would also be learning good software engineering practices and some g framework to be prepared for techno-trivia interviews on my chosen stack.
I guess my point is, there is a huge difference unfortunately between being prepared for a job and being prepared to interview. Contributing to open source doesn’t help the latter.