Here's the brutal truth about life: it's not inherently fair and no one really cares about your circumstances. That means many people will be able to do things or have opportunities that you cannot have. That doesn't mean you have no power however that you need to make a conscious long term effort to get that power one piece at a time.

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Schiendelman 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

In hiring, we pass laws to prevent abuses. In many countries and soon a few states, being asked to work outside of work hours is considered an abuse. Expecting that someone does work related activity outside of work hours is something I would actually consider regulating out of the application process!

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danmaz74 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Of course life isn't fair. But here the result is that companies will ignore potentially great candidates which dedicate all their programming time to their job and instead consider candidates which may be not just worse programmers, but also are more interested in their hobbies (or padding their CV) that doing their job.

I'm saying this as somebody who most of the time has some side project going on.

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bob001 an hour ago | parent [-]

The point of most recruitment pipelines isn't to avoid missing a great candidate but to avoid hiring a bad candidate. There's many great candidates so missing some or many is fine. Hiring a bad candidate however is very expensive to deal with. Many smaller companies view workaholism and a potential to work 996 as a very valuable thing to hire for.

	▲	danmaz74 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> There's many great candidates Perhaps for top-paying companies, but that's never been my experience when I was involved in interviewing and hiring.