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I found a TechCrunch article[1], is that what you're referring to? Hadn't heard of these issues before (but also never tried to apply there). [1] https://www.w

by dx034 7y ago

I found a TechCrunch article[1], is that what you're referring to? Hadn't heard of these issues before (but also never tried to apply there). [1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/revolut-trade-unions-labour-fintech-politics-storonsky https://www.wired.co.uk/article/revolut-trade-unions-labour-...

fasicle 7y ago
This line from the article is interesting: "An analysis of the start and end dates of 147 former Revolut employees on LinkedIn suggests that over 80 percent had lasted less than a year, and over half stayed at the company for less than six months."
kasperni 7y ago
-------------- She did a 30-minute job interview over Google Hangouts with the London-based head of business development, Andrius Biceika, and was immediately told she had passed to the next round, which would involve a small test. “The surprise came when I received the task and it asked me to get the company as many clients as possible, with each one depositing €10 into the app,” says Laura. The instructions on the exercise said the applicants should recruit at least 200 clients in a week to have a chance at passing to the next interview phase. -------------- Wow.....
- namdnay 7y ago
  To play devils advocate, it was a business development position... so it’s a bit like asking a developer to do a homework exercise no?
  - charlesu 7y ago
    It's like asking a developer to build out a feature that will be put into production. For free.
  - aeyes 7y ago
    No, this is working for free. In a developer test you are given a generic problem.
  - oakesm9 7y ago
    Yes, but only if the developer's homework exercise was to take a feature and implement it to actually be released in the live app.
z3t4 7y ago
There's nothing wrong with results based hiring. But when someone asks you to do a test like this, don't do it for free! Don't make it easy for these hustlers by agreeing to work at minimum wage hoping for a bonus once you have required thousands of users for them. They will just find another sucker and repeat.

by dx034 7y ago

fasicle 7y ago

This line from the article is interesting: "An analysis of the start and end dates of 147 former Revolut employees on LinkedIn suggests that over 80 percent had lasted less than a year, and over half stayed at the company for less than six months."

kasperni 7y ago

-------------- She did a 30-minute job interview over Google Hangouts with the London-based head of business development, Andrius Biceika, and was immediately told she had passed to the next round, which would involve a small test. “The surprise came when I received the task and it asked me to get the company as many clients as possible, with each one depositing €10 into the app,” says Laura. The instructions on the exercise said the applicants should recruit at least 200 clients in a week to have a chance at passing to the next interview phase. -------------- Wow.....

namdnay 7y ago
To play devils advocate, it was a business development position... so it’s a bit like asking a developer to do a homework exercise no?
- charlesu 7y ago
  It's like asking a developer to build out a feature that will be put into production. For free.
- aeyes 7y ago
  No, this is working for free. In a developer test you are given a generic problem.
- oakesm9 7y ago
  Yes, but only if the developer's homework exercise was to take a feature and implement it to actually be released in the live app.

z3t4 7y ago

There's nothing wrong with results based hiring. But when someone asks you to do a test like this, don't do it for free! Don't make it easy for these hustlers by agreeing to work at minimum wage hoping for a bonus once you have required thousands of users for them. They will just find another sucker and repeat.