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Yea, I recently turned down an interview with a company that included a similar 'trial' period as part of their hiring process. From now on, any long, drawn-ou
by jcadam 11y ago
Yea, I recently turned down an interview with a company that included a similar 'trial' period as part of their hiring process.
From now on, any long, drawn-out interview process gets a 'pass' from me. I've had my time wasted too many times (employer suddenly goes dark after the final interview, no communication, no responses to any attempt at contact, etc). In fact, I've given up on my most recent job search after experiencing two of those in a row (need to save my vacation days for an actual vacation at some point).
On second thought, I suppose if I were unemployed and desperate I might be willing to put up with an onerous hiring process.
- lazaroclapp 11y agoOr, conversely, if you had very little commitments outside of work, time to regularly hack on side and sufficient interest in the job to say "ok, this month, my side project is going to be for someone else". But the point remains that this puts an uncommon expectation on applicants, one that maybe Automattic can afford to select for, but that would potentially cause untold problems if all employers hired this way.