sasaka
sasaka
Genpact

I never contributed to Open Source...

I haven’t contributed to open source once so far. I have 5 yrs of work experience in ML engineering. I have this FOMO for not contributing

  1. Will this affect my future career prospects?

  2. In order to join product companies (both FAANG & Startups) do I have to have open source contributions?

  3. If I were to contribute how should I tell recruiters about it (should I mention it in my resume and how should I mention it)

Please share your thoughts

6mo ago
nanKhatai
nanKhatai
PhonePe6mo
  1. No, open source increases chances but no if you don't do it doesn't affect much as most people don't do it
  2. Startups - no issues at all, faang - os might only help in resume shortlist
  3. If you have done decent contributions like 10ish PRs then definitely do mention.
nanKhatai
nanKhatai
PhonePe6mo

Ya ya one project 10prs

nanKhatai
nanKhatai
PhonePe6mo

If you have done 10 in one project, I would say its good contribution, most people don't even do OS

jaaniDushman
jaaniDushman
Stealth6mo

7 years of experience here.
Don’t think about it. OS is not for everybody.

That being said do keep looking to solve problems you might face on a day to day basis with code. That could be tooling, maintaining a deprecated library that your work requires, etc.
Might become the next best thing 🤷🏻‍♂️

TheOatmeal
TheOatmeal
Stealth6mo

Its better not to contribute rather than changing the readme file in Github.

Welt
Welt
Quantiphi6mo

2 years into the ml field same here.

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