Comment by mock-possum

> tech-interviewers will routinely measure candidates by the output of their extra-curricular coding

Is this true, or is it a myth? It’s a patently unfair metric to measure someone’s professional aptitude by what they doin their free time, everyone knows it, no one wants to be held to that standard… how common is it, actually, that employers expect you to clock out of your day job getting paid to write code, and proceed to your second unpaid job of writing more code?

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered any indication during the hiring process that a potential employer was disappointed to see my lack of ‘shipped’ side projects. Ever!