I've been on a few interviews in my life where it required flying from my home state. The companies always paid for a plane ticket up front. I've even had inter

I've been on a few interviews in my life where it required flying from my home state. The companies always paid for a plane ticket up front. I've even had interviews that required a few hours of driving and they paid for parking, gas and even a hotel room once I provided receipts. Funny enough and sort of messed up, but, I went on a local interview earlier this year where I drove 30 mins to meet the person for coffee. I paid for coffee because the company credit card declined and that was his only form of payment. They offered me a 60 hour a week coding job for $30,000/year because they felt the work wasn't complicated and didn't require my c++ skills even thought their current code base was c++. They wanted to make no changes to the c++ code and start adding functionality using Python as "most college kids learn Python" and "would be happy to accept such a great job". I declined. I received a call from the CEO asking me why, they were really impressed. I said the salary was an insult and it was advertised as a $90,000/year job. He replied that he only takes $40,000 as a salary and the $90,000 figure was to attract interest, hoping to find someone who believed in the companies goals and would work for less money with the future hope of more. I suddenly had someone knocking at my door...