[edmccaffrey]

> I am not a lawyer, but I believe that judging a job candidate based on their outside-of-work activities would actually be considered discrimination and illegal.

Discrimination is legal except for the few specific cases outlined in the various civil rights, equal pay, and age discrimination acts. Might as well take two minutes to research before making these types of posts.

[techiferous]

Yep. Discrimination is the whole point of interviewing job candidates. You are trying to discriminate between the ones fit for the job and the ones not. :)

[gaius]

It depends on whether it's a coded way of asking if the candidate is married/has kids.

    Interviewer: Do you work on an open source project outside of work?
    Candidate: No, I'm too busy looking after my kids and Church activities
    Interviewer (thinking): Oh shit, I better have a damn good reason to give to HR if I reject this candidate...