Comment by whateveracct

> While working on open-source projects might be tolerated, even on company time, it makes sense that it won't put you on a path to promotion unless there is direct benefit to the company from it.

The thing is - this is all theater. It's mostly made-up storytelling. An individual engineer's self-review doesn't actually speak to their direct impact on the company's success.

It's fallacy to act like you can map commits to dollars. But there's a lot of money to be made by HNers for trying, so I'm sure they'll act like they can do the impossible.