u/International-Bed413 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
This is nothing about individuals, I just want to track the data for myself. Fun note, only 2 students put codesmith in their bios, but all have software engineer as their LinkedIn title, listing an open source as work experience. I’m just curious if this is really a winning stra
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I mean I spent two hours a few months ago making a spreadsheet of 200 alumni after a bunch of people applied to Formation with the same resumes and the fake work experience. I didn't realize it wasnt work experience until talking to people and asking questions with weird answers, e.g. what were your goals, how were your hired, what non engineers did you work with, who set the team direction, how do you make money, etc... Then I learned about OSLabs, discovered it wasn't even a real organization, and did the deep dive above. I captured the work experience from LinkedIn profiles and the GitHub commit history of the people and discovered the average person claimed 12 months of work experience and had 3 weeks of commits on the corresponding proejct.
Since then have been keeping my ears open, watched a bunch of YouTube videos and tech talks for now, want to know this all works but try to remain open minded and stay middle of the road.
I'm extremely busy and this isn't related to my work but if you want to do some real research the above is very simple. Grab LinkedIns and Githubs from the open source project websites and then open them and record the work experience if any and the number of commits and number of weeks over which the commits were done.
Visually, this is demonstration of the commits and many of those little spikes is listed as months for work experience https://github.com/open-source-labs/Swell/graphs/contributors (open on desktop only to see)