This is on-point! I've been involved in the recruitment process at my current employer for years and 95% of people that make it past the initial recruiter meet-and-greet have absolutely nothing to show in terms of open-source contributions or personal projects. Most of them just do the homework assignment so that you can at least talk about something during the interview.

You can always say it's because the company doesn't attract good enough candidates, but good luck with that in a competitive dev market in a large european capital.

I appreciate the authors honesty in his obliviousness of being on "the other side of the table" and I think it's clear that the author is living in a bubble that doesn't correspond to reality for people recruiting.