Brother you're from India? The market is much more tough and much more dumb here.

Due to competition, very few measures are competed upon very fiercely.

Whatever applies in west doesn't apply here.

I have had friends like you who did incredible projects and contributed to open source.

The best of my friends have ended up in relatively good startups due to open source and projects, after lot of struggle.

But on the other hand, I have seen absolutely incompetent morons who did Leetcode (or even cheated at it) and got a high life job.

Scale ruins things I guess. This market is pathetically fucked.