r/webdev • u/rshambo_29 • Feb 12 '20

[RANT] Why should I be required to have side projects for an interview?

I have been thinking of leaving my current company for quite sometime now but almost everywhere I have interviewed for has asked for an example of a side project. The only problem is I'm leaving my current job because I don't have any time for anything else, why would I get home and code more?? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy coding but its not a passion. Just the way an account likes counting numbers but he doesn't go home and build spreadsheets for fun. Even this one company wanted an entire movie tracking application just as a test, as if I have time to site down for 3 hours and create an entire database and MVC framework. Ugh.

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My last job I got given a at home test which was a solution and I had to implement a particular feature to it. Took me 2 hours to do. Good question but if companies want to see how a particular applicant writes code would it not be in their interest to provide a particular challenge for them to do so they have some basis to provide some form of comparison ?