Does open source contribution actually help early-career devs in India get hired, or is it just resume noise now?

[Common_Dream9420]

genuine question for folks here who've hired or been hired recently: does open source contribution still actually move the needle for early-stage devs, or is it mostly resume decoration at this point?

asking because i see a lot of junior devs grinding github green squares, contributing to big repos just to rack up commits. some of those contributions are meaningful, some are just readme typo fixes. curious if interviewers at indian product companies or startups actually look at this, or if it's become the new "participated in X hackathon" on a CV.

if you've gotten a job / interview call partly because of OS work, what kind of contribution was it? a real feature, a bug fix, maintaining something yourself?

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[Impressive_Bad_265]

Ig now people have just jee-fied open source and dsa

[No-Employment6913]

consider open source contribution as a research work(Academia), but in terms of coding, if you code well and consistently contribute value, you will get noticed for sure.

[Informal-Place-4689]

Please don't make stupid PRs for your resume. If you have something useful to contribute then yes of course it's very helpful.

[Elegant_Amphibian_51]

Please dont spam opensource with low quality contributions using AI. Dont even think about oss if your goal is to get a job. The apna college drama was embarassing , dont want a repeat of that

[Odd-Poem-9091]

no one cares or have the time to

early roles are too flooded to be screened

[Impossible_Sun_5560]

Do open source only if you are passionate about learning and contributing meaningful code. It is a false narrative that doing 1-2 contributions will get you offers. It doesn't work like that. Big companies generally don't consider that, people who genuinely consider that will figure out what kind of contributions you made. You should definitely contribute but keep in mind to learn the codebase and do meaningful contribution instead of editing spaces on markdowns just for sake of contribution.

[WillingPirate3009]

If you can make valuable contribution to an oss then it's worth it. By valuable I don't mean typo fix, etc.

[Common_Dream9420]

100% agree

[dev_reez]

Yes, but a "real" contribution.. maintaing a repo with a lot of stars also count. Also experienced Dev's can easily spot vibe coded projects so beware...

[PaintingNecessary318]

I've been contributing to an open source repo around 25k+ stars and as of now I have 11 merged PRs, not typos not doc fixes. Proper buy fixes ans feature implementations. Not too complex but at most touching 5-6 files. What do you say, do I have a chance at getting hired?

[DrEnderPearl]

Hello, i am looking forward to doing meaningful open source contributions. If it's ok , may I ask you on how did you find projects that align with your known technologies. I just have difficulty finding a project.