I interviewed a developer once who was super junior on paper but had a side project of a fully featured desktop anime episode to watch/watched tracker with lots of library feature features.
Hire.
Interviewed another Dev who made arcade sticks as a side project.
Hired.
You can't teach passion. Hire all that passionate people you can. Tech stacks are irrelevant compared to the love of building things.
Hire.
Interviewed another Dev who made arcade sticks as a side project.
Hired.
You can't teach passion. Hire all that passionate people you can. Tech stacks are irrelevant compared to the love of building things.