The dispassionate developer
Maybe it&#x27;s the jobs that I&#x27;ve worked, or the country I&#x27;m in ( UK ). But I&#x27;ve really not seen this shift towards looking at portfolios of open source work rather than CV&#x27;s. Every company I&#x27;ve worked for has requested a CV, and often does some form of test or in person interview centred around programming problems. The tests vary in quality and depth.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t think of myself as a passionate developer. I have a family, I value my free time. I spend work time growing my skill set as it&#x27;s required, anything else I do is rarely related.<p>I have a feeling that there&#x27;s a silent majority of developers such as myself, that do enjoy programming and have a &quot;passion&quot; for it, but do not let this passion dissuade them from family time, or having more varied down time.<p>I think for a lot of people it&#x27;s a dangerous game to be spending every waking moment working for a company, then spending your down time scraping together stuff for open source contributions etc.<p>I salute those that can and do though.