Should junior software developers be contributing to open source? A question that has been raised recently due to the alarming amount of spam pr's on popular open source repos on GitHub.

This is happening mostly due to junior devs trying to raise their GitHub contributions in an attempt to impress potential employers. So in this video, I want to discuss the issue and how junior developers should be approaching open source contributions.

Credit to Theo (who's video is linked below), who originally brought this issue to my (and many other's) attention recently.

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Theo's video (Don't Contribute To Open Source):    • Don't Contribute to Open Source  

How To Get a Tech Job In 2024:    • How To Get a Tech Job in 2024  

Chapters:
00:00 Intro/Why I'm talking about this
00:50 The recent issue
01:25 What "contributing to open source" actually means
01:53 What junior developers are doing
02:29 Reality check
02:56 People are being misled
03:32 What you should be doing to contribute
04:45 But didn't I say you could find a job through open source??
05:56 Conclusion So, should I be contributing to open source?