About a year ago a recruiter from a NYC company called me about a role which sounded interesting. Then they said the initial part of the interview was to write

About a year ago a recruiter from a NYC company called me about a role which sounded interesting. Then they said the initial part of the interview was to write a project for them, which essentially amounted to "rewrite memcached in go". I must assume they were looking for free labor under the guise of an interview. I strongly suspect there was no job. I offered to do the work for $200/hr, never heard back. Actually, I did hear back over six months later when the same recruiter contacted me again with the same story. I reminded him that we already talked about this long before. Never do work for free under the excuse of an interview.