But the quality of my open source and side projects can't be compared to the quality of my daily job because of time and resources issues. So I still think that my portfolio as a backend developer won't be good enough because the awesome work is closed source and webapps are not accessible to the outside world.
When you say: "there is usually something they've done at work they can discuss" then you're not talking about portfolio.
In my case I worked on several side projects, i.e: https://itkdb.com and https://github.com/pedrohidalgo/pleasure
But the quality of my open source and side projects can't be compared to the quality of my daily job because of time and resources issues. So I still think that my portfolio as a backend developer won't be good enough because the awesome work is closed source and webapps are not accessible to the outside world.
When you say: "there is usually something they've done at work they can discuss" then you're not talking about portfolio.
Thanks again!