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How To Get Hired As An Open Source Developer

Posted by timothy on from the an-ask-slashdot-faq dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Todd Cranston-Cuebas, tech recruiter for Ticketmaster, offers insider tips and tricks for landing an open-source job -- or for recruiting new talent to your IT staff." Make yourself googleable.

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  1. Shared political ideology, not talent, got you job by AHumbleOpinion · · Score: 2, Troll

    Because I hated Microsoft. Im not kidding. He figured that if I was smart enough to dislike Microsoft that I probably knew what I was talking about.

    You may very well be a very talented person, but your boss may be an idiot. It seems your boss hired you due to a shared political ideology. Do you think half the vocal MS haters around here could build a working non-trivial system?