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> I was once asked to basically create a clone of Yelp in a week That's just unfair, inconsiderate and unsustainable, and is also a red flag (ie: I would not
by lettersdigits 10y ago
> I was once asked to basically create a clone of Yelp in a week
That's just unfair, inconsiderate and unsustainable, and is also a red flag (ie: I would not go to that company).
Giving up a week of your life for an interview ?
and for free ?
And most importantly -
what if ALL companies did this ? you would have to spend months working from home, for free, just to get to the next level of the hiring process .
I don't know what the solution IS, but I know for sure that it IS NOT a 1-week work-from-home-for-free task .
(edit:formatting and some grammar)
Edit2: people will actually pay good money for a yelp (or craigslist/etc/etc) clone on places like upwork.
And they asked you to do it for free .
- andai 10y agoYou just gave me an idea.. you could actually run an entire company on nothing but free work by candidates doing "homework assignments"...
- lettersdigits 10y ago:) it is probably something like : 1. go to upwork 2. find a 2-3 hours task (eg: scrape entire site [sitename].com, design a logo etc. etc. 3. give the same task to 5 different candidates 4. choose the best one 5. make profit and gain upwork cred 6. send a "thanks but we chose a different candidate" email to all the candidates 7. repeat (edit:formatting) edit2: you can even let candidate X make a code review on candidate Y. step 8: automate the process and go public
- user5994461 10y agoManaging all the candidates and submissions is actually a full time work.