"If someone points to a bunch of barely started projects, they might have great ideas but in a business you also need to execute." I'm not disagreeing, because

"If someone points to a bunch of barely started projects, they might have great ideas but in a business you also need to execute." I'm not disagreeing, because I agree that side projects show passion, but I'm not sure a lack of side projects necessarily points to a worse employee. Someone could be a great developer in an enterprise environment, from where they obviously wouldn't be able to show you code snippets, but have no side projects because they might have other hobbies.