u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
On a weekly basis, in my personal experience only, people are mistaking these resumes for experienced engineers. The blame might be entirely on the people making these mistakes, but I'm stating that I'm seeing it happening almost all the time.
I would like to emphasize what I repeatedly said in the past, MOST people working on real, legit Open Source projects ARE PAID for it. So Open Source !== not a real job and instantly make something that looks like a company not a company. Anyone reading, happy to talk more what Open Source really means because there is a lack of understanding in this sub about it.
In auditing 200 GitHub commit histories, over 75% of people had 2-3 weeks of commits on their projects, far less than even 1 month, never-mind multiple months. I have a nicely organized Google sheet from around May when I did the analysis. This is not two sides, it's a continuous spectrum and I land somewhere in the middle. But the data is really clear so some wires are getting crossed somewhere.
Finally, the vast majority of Fellows at Formation are already employed and training part time (once again they are not students and we are not a school) so they are already employed in another job and doing Formation to get a better job aligned with their goals... and yes I spend a lot of time every day helping them find jobs aligned with their goals... in the past week someone said "I don't know when Michael sleeps" and that pretty much describes how I make all this happen. We also raised venture capital so we have been fortunate to hire staff and principal FAANG engineers and recruiters to help support Fellows. I time-box reddit responses and come back to edit them when I run out of time and have more to say.