Jason Voorhees
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Some time back, I and a few others in my company got this shady email from an agency. They were basically outsourcing Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects before announcements of the repos happens at the end of February and were soliciting experienced developers to handle the core work on projects, promising a cut of the student's stipend in return.
The agency gets all of the cash while fake student gets the prestigious cert, and the real contributors get 0 . If you don't know what GSoC is it is Google's program where students undergrads contribute to open source orgs in summer. They release a list of companies and open repos and you contribute.
summerofcode.withgoogle.com
You get mentorship, real world experience, a stipend around $3-6K and a shiny resume booster. It's meant to launch careers for STUDENTS. That is the key word here for students says it right there in the front page
It's not for people like me who have got years of open source commits and these people are pitting battle hardened devs against a 2nd/3rd students who wrote their first API last semester all for a few thousand dollars and those mentors somehow tell themselves they have some kind of 10x engineer prodigy in their hands who is unusually proficient submitting production grade stuff from day 1 while being unable to communicate any of it.
Actually this ties back to the entry level job market as a whole these days. When companies stop hiring juniors refusing to train people, everyone gets pushed into the same narrow funnel.
Anyone can learn how to code but it takes years of experience, seeing things break a dozen times in prod to build actual skills and expertise to be useful to company and solve real buisness problems and not just toy vibe coded stuff. These things don't materialize over night.
Even I was student. I'm in this position today because people took chances on me. I've mentioned it many times on the forum. Someone hired me when I had flaws, was willing to teach me, offer guidance, saw potential instead of demanding perfection and invested their time to work on me. That's how real engineers and professionals are made no body is born industry ready right out of uni. Not through certificates, not through shortcuts. Not beating them down like this.
Talent never appears fully formed it takes time and is grown with effort and hard work and until people start treating it as that all you are going to get is wasted potential being dismissed it's just competition bro.
The agency gets all of the cash while fake student gets the prestigious cert, and the real contributors get 0 . If you don't know what GSoC is it is Google's program where students undergrads contribute to open source orgs in summer. They release a list of companies and open repos and you contribute.
Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more developers into open source software development.
summerofcode.withgoogle.com
You get mentorship, real world experience, a stipend around $3-6K and a shiny resume booster. It's meant to launch careers for STUDENTS. That is the key word here for students says it right there in the front page
It's not for people like me who have got years of open source commits and these people are pitting battle hardened devs against a 2nd/3rd students who wrote their first API last semester all for a few thousand dollars and those mentors somehow tell themselves they have some kind of 10x engineer prodigy in their hands who is unusually proficient submitting production grade stuff from day 1 while being unable to communicate any of it.
Actually this ties back to the entry level job market as a whole these days. When companies stop hiring juniors refusing to train people, everyone gets pushed into the same narrow funnel.
Anyone can learn how to code but it takes years of experience, seeing things break a dozen times in prod to build actual skills and expertise to be useful to company and solve real buisness problems and not just toy vibe coded stuff. These things don't materialize over night.
Even I was student. I'm in this position today because people took chances on me. I've mentioned it many times on the forum. Someone hired me when I had flaws, was willing to teach me, offer guidance, saw potential instead of demanding perfection and invested their time to work on me. That's how real engineers and professionals are made no body is born industry ready right out of uni. Not through certificates, not through shortcuts. Not beating them down like this.
Talent never appears fully formed it takes time and is grown with effort and hard work and until people start treating it as that all you are going to get is wasted potential being dismissed it's just competition bro.
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