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Just, wow. I'm sorry you have to deal with that. For my next job, I've thought about offering to work for free for a week or so as a kind of mutual trial peri
by rabidrat 10y ago
Just, wow. I'm sorry you have to deal with that.
For my next job, I've thought about offering to work for free for a week or so as a kind of mutual trial period. I want to know what the entire office is like, what the codebase is like, what the tools are like, and what actually needs to be done. If they want to rip me off and get a week of free work, great! That's exactly the kind of thing I would want to know about a company upfront. And after that week, they should know the degree to which I'm a fraud and be excited to pay me commensurately.
I know this wouldn't work for most potential employees since they don't quit their jobs until they have another one, but I always take a few months between jobs. I wonder how I might actually be able to pull this off..
- karthikb 10y agoLegally, you probably will not be able to work for free. That said, you can always propose a 1-week contract-to-hire.
- usefulcat 10y agoInstead of offering to work for free, why not propose an at-will contracting arrangement (as opposed to being an employee)?
- dandv 10y agoSeeing what the codebase is like for just a week may not be something many larger companies would be too happy with (think IP theft).
- eps 10y agoNot for a week and not for free, but we converged to basically saying to every new hire that their 3 month probation period is their hands-on interview. You look at us, we look at you and let's err on the side of caution and assume it won't work. So far it worked well.