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I graduated college last year and I did quite a few of these unpaid interview projects. They never took more than a hour and all of the projects were clearly no
by kevindong 7y ago
I graduated college last year and I did quite a few of these unpaid interview projects. They never took more than a hour and all of the projects were clearly not intended to actually be used in real life projects. The projects are clearly there to see if I could follow the written spec and write reasonably efficient code which I think is reasonable.
If the take home project looks like something the company would actually use in their codebase, then yeah I would probably ask for compensation.
- brailsafe 7y agoI think if you're just getting into the industry, and if the projects are actually of small scale, then they're arguably more reasonable. If you have a resume with stuff on it and can talk through it, it's less so. Most of the ones I've seen have required way more hours to do reasonably well than the estimated time, and it's ridiculous to have every candidate prove themselves equally with some trite project.