[gregjor]

I agree. I don't have any side/personal projects to show because I don't write code for fun. Because the code I write is almost always owned by an employer or client I have to get their permission to show snippets, and rely on describing the problem and how I contributed to solving it.

Code samples are easy to plagiarize so I always ask candidates who have code samples to explain the code, walk me through it. It's disappointing to see how often candidates can't do that, either because they don't actually understand the code or didn't even write it themselves.