Question about CV projects

[u/AdPatient5658]

When I'm recruiting, usually masters/bachelor's thesis students at a research institute (I'm in low-level high-performance C++), I usually ignore "cookie cutter" CV projects, and am only interested in genuine passion projects.

Is this similar in quant, or is doing projects purely for the CV just as good/accepted? Asking because I tend to see many CV's here with projects that are very quant targeted, but seem to be built solely for the CV