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What if you have side projects that make money, i.e. are "work"? Is that discounted by "non-work, non-school" or by non-work do you mean "not your day job"?
by greenleafjacob 12y ago
What if you have side projects that make money, i.e. are "work"? Is that discounted by "non-work, non-school" or by non-work do you mean "not your day job"?
- gknoy 12y agoI imagine many would be hesitant to mention such experience, but I think it would be a great thing to hear about in an interview. If you're interviewing an parallel universe's patio11-equivalent, and they say, "I have been running FlashCardCreator.com since 2001...", and goes on to explain neat things about what she's learned from it, it sounds like that should be a big green flag. Not only is such a person likely to have lots of cross-domain insight, but they clearly have the mojo to deliver working code. If you're worried that they might decide that their work-outside-yours is going to cannibalize their time, they probably have an answer for why you don't need to worry much about that. (After all, they __did__ apply.) I would be surprised if you had to worry about them leaving any more than you would any other developer.
- 16bytes 12y agoIt's a completely open-ended question and I word it differently depending on how the interview is going. You can demonstrate passion for technology even if what you talked about was a one-off utility that you wrote for your job. I want to see if your eyes light up when you talk about it.
- protomyth 12y agoI phrase it so it is the "not your day job" version. In the more general sense a better phrasing is "something that wasn't required of you by others". Since I wrapped it in other questions, I got the idea across. If it made money, cool. Just so there was no one saying "you need to do this".