Recruiting and Onboarding
The reputation gained by being an authentic FOSS citizen helps even if your company’s primary business isn’t software or technology, since it undoubtedly employs software and technology people. While recruiting is a challenge for most roles, it’s gotten especially difficult for technical roles in recent years. Despite all of the many ways people can learn how to program (traditional schooling, programming camps, and self-taught among others), there are still many more tech role openings than people to fill them. This has led to vicious competition to locate and hire these individuals, and eye-popping salaries to entice technologists to join.
Companies that participate in FOSS communities have a head start in the race ...
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