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Man, I forgot how much people on hacker news absolutely hate the idea of side projects, a.k.a. passion for engineering and an interest in creating new things.
by vunderba 3y ago
Man, I forgot how much people on hacker news absolutely hate the idea of side projects, a.k.a. passion for engineering and an interest in creating new things.
Somehow the implication is that if you build even one little side project for fun that means that you spend every single hour of your time coding. It's such a reductio ad absurdum argument.
If I was hiring an architect, I'd expect to see samples of their work.
If I was hiring an artist, I'd expect them to have a portfolio on Behance or Artstation.
etc. etc.
- popularonion 3y agoIt sounds like you have the mentality that everybody must be a front end developer. I work in a domain that's very much not front end development, I've participated in interview rounds for at least 100 different candidates, I don't think I've seen "side projects" ever be a factor in someone getting hired, not even once. The one thing that did put an applicant way ahead of the pack was contributing to open source projects relevant to our domain. It didn't have to be anything super duper impressive, we just liked to see a history of submitting meaningful PRs and getting them through code review.