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To be clear, you expect candidates to fly out on their own dime just for the interview?
by kevinventullo 2y ago
To be clear, you expect candidates to fly out on their own dime just for the interview?
- throwawayq3423 2y agoIt's more about the reaction by obvious scammers.
- Teever 2y agoYou're talking about the entity trying to make people spend a nontrivial sum of money, time, and effort to get a job, right?
- dallasg3 2y agoWhat’s the scam? Get a job they can’t do…continue to get paid?
- cj 2y ago1 paycheck of just a few thousand dollars USD is a lot of money in other countries. The scam is hold on to the job for at least 1 paycheck. It’s a expensive for companies to (legally) fire people, so if you get hired you typically can get at least a few grand even if you do zero work.
- throwawayq3423 2y ago> It’s a expensive for companies to (legally) fire people Maybe in Europe, in the US it's an email.
- michaelt 2y agoDue to the wealth disparities involved, a month’s Silicon Valley money is a years income for a scammer in a poor country. So just produce LLM-level code, make excuses, say you’re learning the code base, get lots of help from colleagues, turn in mediocre work, and if you can hang on for three months before they fire you - that’s decent money!
- olddustytrail 2y agoHell, you might even get promoted to management!
- dallasg3 2y ago> So just produce LLM-level code, make excuses, say you’re learning the code base, get lots of help from colleagues, turn in mediocre work If they switched from doing all this to pressing people for estimates.
- throwawayq3423 2y agoYep, with very little upfront cost needed.
- roland35 2y agoI think the expectation is that any travel is paid for by the company. I've even had a per diem given to me to pay for meals as well.
- ghaff 2y agoThat was always the norm for me.
- bovermyer 2y agoNot candidates for a position I'm hiring for, no. But positions that I'm applying to? I'm senior enough now that if I can't negotiate a paid-travel interview, clearly I either don't care enough and should cross that opportunity off my list, or it's tempting enough that I don't care.