More companies look at things built outside of work not as extra credit but as possible reasons to hire, in addition to or even over traditional work experience.

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• A hiring loop should have few, well-calibrated interviewers rather than many, because extra interviewers add veto points instead of judgement. CMCharity Majors17 Dec 2024
• What a design candidate builds on the weekends is as interesting as their professional experience, because this is such an exciting time to build. EBEd Bayes9 Sept 2026
• A company should manufacture fresh internal challenges for its best people, because the alternative is that they go and find those challenges at another company. TPThuan Pham1 Apr 2026
• What a designer can learn outside their craft may propel their career forward much more than a design crit with someone at a company they look up to. BJBrandon Jacoby21 Apr 2026
• People do not use products but hire them to do jobs, and builders have to know what those jobs are. RSRobby Stein10 Sept 2026

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