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If I were interviewing you I would care a lot more about the job you were hired to do than about any side-projects that are not part of your job.

I'm not a fan of recruiters incentivizing "required" side-work. That's the time you dedicate to all other important things in your life (which could be a side project, but it is not in most cases)

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The were two posts on Reddit about placing fakes ad for a job to see how the competition was. They were both blown away with the quality of the applications, in particular people working on a lot of important side projects.

I can only assume recruiters very much consider this when they don't know anything else about you.

Do you still have the reddit articles? Sounds interesting.

All things being equal if all you know is their side projects that makes sense. Normally you would have their resume which includes work done at their job. I get how it's so tempting to look at people's side projects as a measure of proficiency. I just don't think it's fair to judge people by their ability to spend hours working outside of work.

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