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I've done that a few time actually. My last company they flew me from another continent to do a 3-days assessment, I worked with the team on a legitimate featu
by mrisoli 7y ago
I've done that a few time actually.
My last company they flew me from another continent to do a 3-days assessment, I worked with the team on a legitimate feature(that would be trashed after as they couldn't use the code because I was unpaid). I liked it, I met the team, I interacted with them, I did the task and got a job offer in the end.
All engineers at the company highly valued the 3 days assessment because we got to select great people to work with, but we were getting too many candidates giving up or false negatives, they eventually cut it down to 1-day despite our protests.
- kdazzle 7y ago3 days of work unpaid!!?
- jacurtis 7y agoPlus international travel. Add 1 day on both sides of that for travel. That is 5 days of unpaid interviewing.
- gregd 7y agoI'm not sure what country you're from or what country you flew to for this ridiculous 'interview' process, but it's one of the many things I loathe about this field...right up there with "rock star" and "ninja" coder. Honestly it's stuff like this, that has me contemplating giving up this career path because there's just no more room for people in their 50s with 25 years of experience in information technology, who aren't willing to sleep at the office, drink your "insert trendy microbrew here" on tap, and suffer through a ludicrous ask like "we want you to work for three days for absolutely nothing to see if you're a good fit".
- jacurtis 7y agoAgreed! Who has the time to spend on a 5-day long interview? If you are traveling internationally, then you have to add 1 day of travel on each side of your trip. Plus the 3-day "interview" or challenge or whatever. So that is 5 straight days of interviewing for a job. That is actually asinine. If you have a current job (most software developers do, especially the good ones) then that is an entire work week that i have to request off at my current job to go to unpaid work with no guarantee of getting a job afterwards. I can't believe someone has actually done this. It is crazy!
- LandR 7y agoThere's no way in hell I give up three days for any company!