[LUAU] Open Source Helping to Drive Tech Hiring

[opensource at punacomputer.com]

Question: Your company is finding that tech hiring is on the rise, and 
one of the reasons is increased reliance on open source. What are 
companies looking for and what has your internal hiring experience been?

Benzaken: In general, people are trying to move away from the Microsoft 
platform, more towards an open source platform. So there's a lot more 
interest in that area. In general, the developers we find in the open 
source arena are more self-starters. They're more involved; a lot of 
them got involved in open source just to be contributors. They're much 
more proactive in terms of being involved in the technology itself. 
Those are the kind of people we find, which are very good, especially 
internally for us, a start-up, where we need people who are 
self-starters; it's very useful to have those skills. The market has 
been moving in that direction, I think, away from the Microsoft platform.

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