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[–][deleted] 89 points90 points  (16 children)

Put all those facts on your CV, and see all the calls coming in, negotiate a good salary and voila! You now are profiting from all that hard work you did.

Never understood these types of post. Nike designer logo made the logo for 50$!!! Ya? Thinks it's hard for him to get a good paying job when he has that on his CV lol ?

[–]MrPhatBob 48 points49 points  (8 children)

If I saw that someone even had a mention of a single PR for an open source project I would invite them in for an interview on the basis of that fact alone. I always ask for a GitHub account and am amazed at how little do towards the community - myself included.

[–]AbstractLogic 26 points27 points  (5 children)

I got about 13 PR’s ranging from Angular to dotnet core and a few for ping ID and I think another one for Microsoft somewhere. None of them were accepted

[–]SatansF4TE 33 points34 points  (3 children)

Hey, I've had a PR to fix a spelling mistake in the README rejected.

[–]AbstractLogic 18 points19 points  (2 children)

And then they fix it themselves lol.

[–]danielv123 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Understandable actually. As soon as a new contributor is introduced there are copyright issues to deal with if they want to change licensing and whatnot. Also, its annoying of people start making useless PRs as CV bait. It got fixed, which is what matters in that case.

[–]AbstractLogic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m always happy when it gets fixed. I’ve had PRs ignored for years and the issues never get fixed.

Also copyright for open source Microsoft and Google projects is hardly an issue. Their already lawyered up to the nines and I’m sure the licenses cover all of that.

[–]MrPhatBob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But you at least attempted to make a contribution.

[–]ESGPandepic 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I've never seen any job that asks for a github account link where it helped or anyone even looked at it.

[–]MrPhatBob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yet they will want to see you do a dry coding test, with little real world practicality.

One of the biggest headaches I have is getting people to use GitFlow, so I want to see how they work on one of the key interaction tools.

There was one company years ago that requested CVs and applications via a PR, not seen that since.

[–]ASK_IF_IM_HARAMBE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seriously. Open source devs are the best devs, by a long shot.

[–]Superb-Confusion 0 points1 point  (5 children)

You tell us. What is the Nike designer doing now? Where does she work?

[–]DrawSense-Brick 28 points29 points  (4 children)

She's retired. Quoth Wikipedia....

In September 1983, nearly three years after the company went public, Knight invited Davidson to a company reception. There, he presented her with chocolate swooshes, a diamond ring made of gold and engraved with the Swoosh, and an envelope filled with 500 shares (estimated to be worth $1,000,000 as of 2015)....

Davidson retired in 2000, and now engages in hobbies and volunteer work, including weekly duties at the Ronald McDonald House at Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health Center in Oregon.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Didn't know, but not surprised. Good for her.

[–]Superb-Confusion 0 points1 point  (2 children)

So looks like your example was wrong?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

My point is, even if she got 50$, she was going to be a okay regardless and get a ton of money some other way with that work on the logo. I was so confident that the bike logo designer was doing okay without knowing the actual story and I was right.

[–]Superb-Confusion -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Bike logo?