I agree, I am certain that there are thousands of great and passionate about FOSS people there. I’m just not that certain about IBM ;) It’s still probably better place to work at than most.
All in all, I am only saying that the fact that somebody cites “personal reasons” doesn’t mean there are no other factors at play.
You shouldn’t burn bridges when leaving even the shittiest employer. So personal reasons it is. We will never know what the truth is ;)
It’s not about corporate instances. It’s the bots and fake accounts/posts/comments. That’s one of the issues with Reddit. There are little authentic posts. Most of them are advertisements it just reposts to farm karma to avoid detection. It’s ridiculous.
Not only that, but the community is small enough that large corporations and marketing companies don’t care about it. Yet ;)
Great advice. I would add to it just to learn leveraging those tools effectively. They are great productivity boost. Another side effect once they become popular is that some skills that we already have will be harder to learn so they might be in higher demand.
Anyway, make sure you put aside enough money to not have to worry about such things 😃