Describe open-source contribution experience

Q: Describe open-source contribution experience

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Open-Source Contributions — Behavioral Question

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You are interviewing for a Software Engineer role in a behavioral and leadership-oriented round. Focus on collaboration, impact, and what you learned.

Prompt

Describe your experience contributing to open-source projects. Please include:

Which projects you contributed to and the roles you held (contributor, reviewer, maintainer, etc.).
Your most impactful contributions (features, fixes, docs, performance, CI/release, etc.).
How you collaborated with maintainers and the community (design discussion, RFCs, reviews, async comms).
What you learned from code reviews and issue triage.

Be specific and quantify impact where possible (e.g., PRs merged, issues triaged, performance improvements, downloads/users affected).

Describe open-source contribution experience

Open-Source Contributions — Behavioral Question

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