Jonnalagadda: outsource vs open source

Kiran Jonnalagadda talks about his personal experience with releasing code under an open source license, and includes a tip for job hunters. "The first person to contribute a patch got hired and became HasGeek’s first employee. HasGeek is now six people. If you’ve never seen us advertise on our own job board, that’s because we don’t have to. We simply hire volunteers who contribute to our code. It works great: we don’t need a ramp up period to get them familiar with our systems, and we don’t need to create fake scenarios for interviews. They are demonstrating capabilities with production code." (Thanks to Biju Chacko)

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