Actually, usually the opposite. I do more challenging work as a hobbyist than as an employee, by several orders of magnitude. The cause for that is that as a w

Actually, usually the opposite. I do more challenging work as a hobbyist than as an employee, by several orders of magnitude. The cause for that is that as a web developer the emphasis on work and capabilities is entirely around knowledge of tools. If fact it is pretty extreme to the point of people often telling you to deliberately avoiding writing original solutions to problems, even if quick and minor, if instead you can download an untested package from the internet. See: * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invented_here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invented_here * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27310461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27310461 I usually excel at the leet code portion of the interview and then immediately bomb the next round of interview when I advocate for writing code, originality, and portability.