Or whether a company wants a programmer to be a brand ambassador will depend on the culture of the company because to many, that’s a job for the resident marketer or salesperson because to them, IT is the bunch of nerds who work in the back room on something no one knows about, but it ends up in the product being sold. Because they don’t work for Red Hat, no one has any interest in ever showing anyone outside of IT what code they are writing, and in fact, this code is protected as a trade secret.

They’re paid for working on the product, and messing around with someone else’s code during the day is seen as a waste of time by the bosses who don’t see the point in it and don’t care to because they’re only worried about their sales numbers and Github contributions are not sales. These bosses also give raises and promotions for those who make the product better and hit sales-mandated deadlines, not for those “screwing around” during the day.

Not everyone lives in your little bubble where contributing to open source projects is seen as a positive and programmers get showered with attention and money for working on others’ code available to anyone for free. You’ve been pointed to this many times now, but you arrogantly double down in vague, meaningless replies instead of actually listening to what people are telling you. This is not becoming of someone who describes himself as some sort of “legendary recruiter” unless the legend is in his own mind.