My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs
Is it true you still need an &quot;open source coding resume&quot; by mid-career stage? I can understand using that to give you an advantage for entry-level roles, but by &quot;mid-career&quot; shouldn&#x27;t your experience and achievements in past roles speak for itself? Or do companies still want to see engineers spending their spare time doing unpaid coding? By mid-career, many people have families to support, that they also would like to spend time with in their down time. Surely this is considered during the hiring process? I don&#x27;t think I would want to work somewhere that expects a married with kids mid-level engineer to spend their weekends and nights contributing to open source, just to land their next job.