Per unit time, my blog has probably had a four order of magnitude greater ROI to my career than coding. https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/you-should-write-blogs …
Despite the hype about how open source helps your career and how github==resume, I've had 2/50 interviews where someone's looked at my code
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Is it good or bad? Reviewing code is hard and biases against fresh grads.
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Both! Relying solely on OSS would be terrible -- most of the best coders I know have zero open source code; don't want to mis them.
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to what extend have your open source contributions led to other great opportunities?
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AFAIK that's never happened, although these things are fuzzy enough that it's hard to tell for sure.
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This. Some developers actually don't write code outside of work, and that needs to be OK.
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Exactly! a GOOG recruiter tricked me into wasting lots of time bc I thought citing my GH meant they understood my work. Never again.
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any mentions from recruiters, prior to interview?
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unless you make the project big enough that a company hires you and make you drive the project for their product
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