Your spare time is absolutely yours by definition.
This behavior tells more about the company than about you.
Obviously they don't want / know how to foment the personal development of their workers (that's why they need such employee profile).
I recommend the book "the clean coder" from Uncle Bob, for dealing with the developer-employer / developer-developer relationship. It's not a coding book, and It can be very useful with real life cases, so you will be more certain about your rights (I know, we all now our rights but sometimes we could improve our ability to be more assertive in our claims) . I think that this book will be more helpful for a person with almost a decade of experience.
Your spare time is absolutely yours by definition.
This behavior tells more about the company than about you.
Obviously they don't want / know how to foment the personal development of their workers (that's why they need such employee profile).
I recommend the book "the clean coder" from Uncle Bob, for dealing with the developer-employer / developer-developer relationship. It's not a coding book, and It can be very useful with real life cases, so you will be more certain about your rights (I know, we all now our rights but sometimes we could improve our ability to be more assertive in our claims) . I think that this book will be more helpful for a person with almost a decade of experience.
Just bought the book
"the clean coder"