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#1 - Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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Are Side Projects Attractive to Companies?

Companies don't actually pay very much attention to side projects. Most engineers have been working at a company and there's very little they can show. It's startlingly hard to look at a big bit of code and decide if you think the program who wrote it is skilled. And so for that reason, for all those reasons, side projects are useful.

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