Side projects are great (for recruiting) if: 1. You don't much or any professional experience with software development. 2. You are experienced, but are tryin

Side projects are great (for recruiting) if: 1. You don't much or any professional experience with software development. 2. You are experienced, but are trying to break into another field - and haven't done any relevant work in your current position (for example - front-end developer pivoting to systems development, or whatever) I've encountered a lot of recruiters lately, that were more than interested in checking out personal projects. Hell, I've also seen some data science and ML positions where they explicitly asked for cool/interesting side-projects, where you'd use the tech to solve some problem.