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Comment by vijaybritto

4 years ago

Thats a very good point. In my company whoever writes the most valuable and extensive docs are looked up by people automatically. Either for clarifications or just networking. For the past couple of months I have been making devtools for QA and documenting them and just recently found out that every single team uses them and got recognized for it in the all hands!!

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peakaboo  4 years ago

Any extra salary? No of course not. Lol.

  • lhorie  4 years ago

    Anecdata, but after I released Mithril.js, I started getting contacted by recruiters from Bay Area companies. I now make 4 times as much as I did when I first started working on it. I know of other folks that got poached by high tech companies due to growing prominence in open source.

    FWIW, my experience reflects GP that people really appreciate someone who takes the time to teach/help others. YMMV.

    • krageon  4 years ago

      Working on OSS and working for high tech companies are two things that are diametrically opposite. The latter is not a reward for the former, unless you were only ever writing OSS to pad your resume.

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    • jokethrowaway  4 years ago

      And it's very well deserved, Mithril is amazing!

      I never had a really successful OSS project but I have a few friends who had or were maintainers of successful projects.

      One got poached by FB, another one is a contractor at a higher than average rate.

  • vijaybritto  4 years ago

    Ha ha no. I didnt even have a discussion about that. I think i need to talk to my manager at some point. But he has been very supportive!