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I've seen this happen countless times. More specifically, I've seen companies use contrived but domain-specific questions for interviews, and have either junior
by seattle_spring 7y ago
I've seen this happen countless times. More specifically, I've seen companies use contrived but domain-specific questions for interviews, and have either junior or overconfident candidates assume they were duped into a free consultation under the guise of an interview.
No, a $100B+ company that regularly pays $500k/yr to mid level engineers is not trying to save a few thousand dollars by dancing around a consultation fee.
I worked for a data heavy company a few years back that would use a domain relevant but extremely contrived and simplified dataset for interviews. Our Glassdoor was filled to the brim with identical accusations.
- cyanno 7y agoWe believe it was not just about saving money, but also the fact that he is older (almost 50). He felt they were a bit age-ist, wanting his knowledge and experience and yet not willing to hire someone in his age bracket.
- sloaken 7y agoAlthough I agree large companies would not need to, and probably have very strong rules against it. I can also see various unscrupulous lead engineers / middle managers doing exactly this. I had a similar experience back a number of years ago. They did offer me a job, but it was not a good offer.