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Are you sure it was the latest version of their product? Asking someone to do a task that you have recently done could be a really good code test.

• Zenbit_UX 7y ago
  They had given me a live demo of their product on a call beforehand, so I know they didn't have this. They wanted me to design a feature they didn't have yet on their current product.
  • grogenaut 7y ago
    If they had paid you for your time would it have been ok?
    • entropicdrifter 7y ago
      Depends on if you're happy just being a hired gun instead of an employee. The real problem is that they've broken the social contract implicit in the interviewing process, which is that the work you're doing is only to prove yourself and that they won't benefit by it except to be able to gauge your skills. If instead they had been honest up-front that they wanted to hire you short term as a trial period type thing with the possibility of hiring you as a full employee down the line, that would be fair.
      • DoofusOfDeath 7y ago
        Not worthwhile, but it would have been interesting if you'd completed the project and included some telltale sign that you'd authored the code. Then, if you found they'd deployed it without you having granted them a right to use your copyrighted work, you'd have an interesting basis for a lawsuit.
        • WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
          I would have sent it from a public Github repo. That's what I usually do with code challenges!
    • Zenbit_UX 7y ago
      Yes. It would have gone a long way to make me feel like I wasn't being conned into free labor.