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-------------- She did a 30-minute job interview over Google Hangouts with the London-based head of business development, Andrius Biceika, and was immediately

-------------- 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.