How does a love of dogs and the outdoors (example above) contribute meaningfully to a tech role?

How about a love of dance or photography?

We go to work to get paid for our skills, not to go camping together or share our love of bird watching.

What if a hobby included volunteering at a church, mosque, local GOP or DNC fundraising HQ, re-enacting War simulations or practicing at a gun range?

I agree with the posters above who think this is, at best, useless and at worst, a potential for discrimination.

Tech roles comes in many forms. For example, I have worked a fair bit with graphics programming and VFX, where extensive knowledge of photography would be very useful.

I can imagine tech jobs where most of the hobbies you've listed could be considered relevant. Dance? Biometric sensor tech. Guns? Video games. And so on...

Perhaps it signals the person has a healthy work life balance.

>We go to work to get paid for our skills, not to go camping together or share our love of bird watching.

Some people prefer to work on teams where they're treated more like humans and less like cogs in a machine.