Gregory's Server
Had an interesting conversation yesterday with someone that reminded me how weird Corporate and Open Source development is.
He asked what sort of qualifications and degrees are required to work on the rust compiler.
I told him: "Well, none. You could grab a ticket and create a PR. Now, getting that PR landed means it's going to be super scrutinized."
There are PhDs with dozens of AWS certs relying on code written by college drop-outs.
It's a really, really weird world.
@jrconlin @snipe s/weird/good/g :)
I love hiring people based on their skills and contributions and rather credentials, and OSS is one of the easiest places to do that.
@jrconlin I hope the college dropouts are not having to spend too much of their valuable time fixing the code from the PhD's.
@jrconlin It's even worse than it seems for corporate: the background checks. No matter how good you are, or how many years of experience you got, if you ave a practically irrelevant police record then they won't hire you, not even for remote work in another country. Luckily for me I have never been arrested, but what happens with people who live under a dictatorship?
Corporate work is bullshit.