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> Companies do pay a lot to fly candidates, put them in hotels and feed them for onsite interview. I tend to see 1) quick phone call with recruiter 2) please m

• collyw 4y ago
  That's a red flag to me.I want to at least speak with someone on the tech team before I agree to do a few hours of work for free.
  • ThePadawan 4y ago
    Yeah, over here, companies don't understand why anyone would want that. Surely the generic job description with 10 bullet points has answered all your questions, or you wouldn't have applied (/s)? Then they go on to complain that candidates will jump off and that they can't find enough employees.
• genezeta 4y ago
  This is my experience too most of the time. In one case, Airbus, they didn't even bother with a phone call. I applied via their website's application process. More than a month later, without having heard anything from them at all, I get an email from someone with an exercise that "should not take you more than 12 hours". They also gave me 3 days from the day the email was sent, to send my code. Eh... Ah, there was a local company which, as part of the application process itself, would present you with a small test. First problem: it was incorrectly set up and I got some totally unrelated test about something like Excel or whatever. I added a comment to let them know that I thought it was the wrong test. Again, never heard from them for 2 or 3 weeks. Then an email addressed to no one in particular, asking to do an assignment. I replied asking for clarification. Saying I hadn't even spoken with anyone yet and the exercise felt weirdly unrelated to the position I had applied to. Never heard back, fortunately.