Does GitHub hire developer advocates? If so, how do you go about applying to be one?
21st October 2013
My answer to Does GitHub hire developer advocates? If so, how do you go about applying to be one? on Quora
If you’re a good candidate for a developer advocate position, you already know how to get in touch with the right people at GitHub!
(A more useful answer: go and hang out with them at conferences, or drop one of their existing prominent speakers an email—you can find out who those people are on http://github.lanyrd.com/ )
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