Re:Ask HN: Recruiters want people who do side projects, yet ...
by jasode on Thursday July 15, 2021 @09:02AM
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>The myth is that most companies only want people with lots of side projects. [...] The myth is that side projects are a prerequisite for getting the job,
I do understand your point but just to be pedantic about interpreting op's phrasing of "are looking for people who do lots of side projects"...
I've personally never interpreted that to mean "if you don't have a Github profile, you are unhireable" so the "looking for people" didn't mean prerequisite but simply a weighting to help choose between candidates.
The Who's Hiring excerpts of Github projects being desirable-not-mandatory seemed to match the intended meaning of the op's premise even if their exact phrasing doesn't satisfy language lawyers and makes them appear naive.
The myth is that most companies only want people with lots of side projects.
That doesn’t mean that there aren’t any companies who will take side projects into consideration, as in your examples. The myth is that side projects are a prerequisite for getting the job, which isn’t even true in the examples you selected.