You touched a bit on this in your post, but what about students? I am often too busy with my school projects and internships to spend time making small hobby projects. And any project that I do start up over the summer usually ends up falling apart by beginning of the next semester.
I have had the "what do you work on at home question?" and because I have to answer, "Recently I've been swamped with passing my classes." I always felt like a loser who can't manage my busy schedule.
Do you think that assignments that have been done in school (OS and programming language type courses) acceptable answers for those questions?
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I'm a Software Engineer and a teacher.
There's no feeling quite like the one you get when you watch someone's eyes light up learning something they didn't know.
Unfortunately, there are still employers who believe that in order to be a good programmer you need to display "passion" by having a string of side projects, not realizing how such requirements favor those privileged enough to have the time/resources to maintain said projects and lock out those of us with families/school/a life.
The good news (sort of) is that such companies tend to have really toxic work environments and expect their employees to put in extra hours and stay late, so by not qualifying for their arbitrary standards you self-select out of the worst places to work.
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You touched a bit on this in your post, but what about students? I am often too busy with my school projects and internships to spend time making small hobby projects. And any project that I do start up over the summer usually ends up falling apart by beginning of the next semester.
I have had the "what do you work on at home question?" and because I have to answer, "Recently I've been swamped with passing my classes." I always felt like a loser who can't manage my busy schedule.
Do you think that assignments that have been done in school (OS and programming language type courses) acceptable answers for those questions?
If you ask me, school projects should be enough 🙂
Unfortunately, there are still employers who believe that in order to be a good programmer you need to display "passion" by having a string of side projects, not realizing how such requirements favor those privileged enough to have the time/resources to maintain said projects and lock out those of us with families/school/a life.
The good news (sort of) is that such companies tend to have really toxic work environments and expect their employees to put in extra hours and stay late, so by not qualifying for their arbitrary standards you self-select out of the worst places to work.