I spend a lot of time giving advice to people changing careers into tech. I agree with a lot of the criticism here, but I think the author's choices are reflect

I spend a lot of time giving advice to people changing careers into tech. I agree with a lot of the criticism here, but I think the author's choices are reflective of the new grad hiring climate. Hiring for any competitive tech job relies on having a stellar resume with impressive sounding projects, and ideally a degree from a top CS school. Interviewers have little time to review projects, so new grads market small projects like this as much more impressive than they are, knowing they'll only be asked about them in passing as a break from algorithm problems.