I&#x27;ve had a few job interviews recently in which I felt unsure how to discuss my paid, freelance projects.<p>In my case, I have taken on freelance jobs doing machine learning and NLP for small companies that don&#x27;t have budget or need to hire an ML engineer full time. In my day job, I do a lot of data engineering and data warehousing work and very little modeling.<p>My side work is more in line with the type of work I am going for, so I&#x27;d like to be able to highlight those projects in an interview, but so far have avoided discussing them in depth or even putting them on my resume. As a result I feel I am categorized as being a great fit for a data eng role, but not enough experience for data science or machine learning.<p>Generally speaking, do companies look down on candidates who take on side work in addition to their FT job?<p>I suppose it varies depending on the type of company, but curious to hear how others in the HN community have handled the situation.
Ask HN: How to discuss side-gig work on a job interview