> do companies still want to see engineers spending their spare time doing unpaid coding? This is a festering rot in the core of the dev hiring process. Too ma

> do companies still want to see engineers spending their spare time doing unpaid coding? This is a festering rot in the core of the dev hiring process. Too many applications have a required field for your side projects before you've even gotten past the first page. The fact that this is being pushed by someone and enabled by some portion of devs is dangerous.