@alda As a nuclear engineer, I have never been asked to show my portfolio of reactor designs I maintain in my free time, I have never been asked to derive the six-factor formula, the quantization of angular momentum, Brehmsstrahlung, or to whiteboard gas centrifuge isotopic separation, water hammer, hydrogen detonation, or cross-section resonance integrals.

There's something deeply wrong with an industry that presumes you're a fraud unless repeatedly and performatively demonstrated otherwise and treats the hiring process as a demented form of 80s-era fraternity hazing.

@arclight @alda THANK YOU!

No one expects nurses to take a few patients home, so why am I a bad programmer when I don't program at home???

@danielaKay @alda Some of the best engineers snd developers I've worked with clock out at 5pm and don't live to work. I was peculiar in those environments because I genuinely found programming to be entertaining and relaxing enough to do it in my free time; it wasn't the norm and made for a more healthy work culture.