But time is the important part here - a single parent raising two kids is not going to have time to code at home versus a twenty-something year old with no responsibilities and dependants who has an abundance of free time. Selecting in that manner can also end up being a discrimination (those from poorer backgrounds are more likely to need to care for relatives, same goes for women, who on average do ten hours more of unpaid care than men a week)
I just can't understand the worldview differences of some interviewers.
Everyone has a finite amount of time, they have other shit to do. The vast majority people irl just code for work. Are they bad programmers? Of course not.
I would say for the average employer paying an average salary, demanding you to showcase a portfolio of hobby project is plain obnoxious. The interviewer can hope the interviewee does some hobby projects and lives and breathes coding but demanding it as a baseline assessment for an interview is absurd.
For the average programmer when they have absolutely have nothing else to do maybe they will work on their sideprojects which even takes a backseat because they have to keep learning new crap every other week to make sure they are up to date.
