side project

Attention over time

7-day rolling share of analyzed posts/comments mentioning this entity · 90 daily points ending 2026-08-28

Final complete day: 2026-08-28. Attention was 0.3% — this entity appeared in 8 of 2,594 analyzed posts/comments in the seven days ending that day (9 mentions).

Each point is a seven-day rolling window of complete UTC days; a point is comparable only when at least 100 analyzed posts or comments fall inside it. A day with no analyzed records counts as zero; missing coverage is marked and never shown as zero. The series ends at the latest complete analyzed day — it never extends into the current incomplete day. How attention is measured.

Recent mentions

1. 2026-08-28 13:21 UTCComment

   > Tbh I have never heard of anyone in real life asked about side projects Maybe we'll have to agree to disagree but I've heard and seen it absolutely tonnes > I did hear many times (practically all the times honestly) of people being asked to do market analysis, prepare a presentation or break down a product on their time for interviews. Sure, that's not what I said though. I'm saying Devs/programmers uniquely have to jump through *more* hoops. If people are being asked to prepare a couple slides to bring in for their interview that's pretty much it, they're not being asked to do a 3 day assessment centre with live excel-fu and macro use as well as showing off their home spreadsheet My whole point isn't that no one has to do work for interviews, it's that Devs *uniquely* have to go through so many different hoops for a role

2. 2026-08-28 12:45 UTCComment

   Tbh I have never heard of anyone in real life asked about side projects let alone an interviewer actually checking someone’s checking a GitHub repo unless it very directly was related to the position. I did hear many times (practically all the times honestly) of people being asked to do market analysis, prepare a presentation or break down a product on their time for interviews. I have been in the industry for 15 years and got to do a lot of interviews during that time and never once got asked about side projects let alone asked for a link to my GitHub. Unless those people you talk about are applying for a starting position they very much get homework to do for the interviews. I know we want to believe we get the short end of the stick more than others but we do get paid more and people in other positions who get paid as much also need to go through long convoluted interview processes.

3. 2026-08-28 07:53 UTCComment

   My issue isn't with a technical test, that's fine My issue is they expect so much insane dedication from people for a single application It's becoming the standard for Devs to need to do and show side projects, a take home assignment, an assessment centre spanning 2-3 days, a few rounds of technical grilling Every job has fakers. Let's cut the bullshit Devs aren't some unique most important job on the planet

4. 2026-08-28 07:49 UTCComment

   I don't think I've really heard of any other industry that requires people to do all of these for one job: - Online interview - Psychometric gamefied testing - Side projects outside of work (basically *no* jobs expect this) - Take home assignments - Multi day assessment centres - 3 rounds of interviews and technical grilling Maybe one or two of these, but it's insane Devs have to jump through 10 hoops for a job. It's not at all normal for a single job application to be taking up 5 days of your life

5. 2026-08-27 11:59 UTCComment

   Stop building toy projects and audit the enterprise codebase you already have access to. Refactor one legacy module end to end without AI or tutorials to force real engineering decisions. This proves senior capability better than any side project during interviews.