All of the companies I have ever worked for directly or indirectly disallow open-source contributions through employment IP agreements. If you are working for somebody else in technology world, there is a good chance that you also have signed such an agreement already.
Yea. That is not to say we (generally people working for such companies) don't contribute to open source, it's just not gonna look like it's coming from you. We will routinely file internal bug reports on our open source tools, but our stuff is tweaked a bit. Also some of the open source stuff we use is actually developed 90% in house and open sourced by US - you'll definitely never see our contributions or bug reports then, because it's all done on our internal codebase & tools.
