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Some people are plenty mentally stimulated at work and don't feel the need to work on their own projects in their spare time. And sometimes your professional accomplishments are significant enough that a side project is not likely to make you a much more attractive candidate. The people who "do both" often don't fall in these categories.

Also a lot of companies don't want their employees to write code for anyone else and will actually see open source contributions as a major red flag.



Also a lot of companies don't want their employees to write code for anyone else and will actually see open source contributions as a major red flag.

FUD. I work for a very large corporation, and open source was definitely not a negative when hiring me. Many very important parts of our business are based on open-source technologies. (And many aren't, FWIW.)




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