> giving feedback effectively is an enormous amount of work I take a lot of issue with this. Interviewing and doing code projects is also an enormous amount of

> giving feedback effectively is an enormous amount of work I take a lot of issue with this. Interviewing and doing code projects is also an enormous amount of work. If a company sends an 8 hour exercise to each candidate, then in aggregate the candidates are probably expending way more person hours than the total expended by the hiring company to settle on a new hire. I no longer do unpaid work. Of course I’ll interview, but to show them how I code on their product and work in their processes, I will only accept a contract-to-hire offer. If more people did this I believe it would exert pressure on companies to not be so wanton with what they ask of candidates, and how expendably they treat them.