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Were you at least paid?

• swyx 2y ago
  you know that paid interview processes are not the norm, "at least" is unlikely
  • nikkwong 2y ago
    If I was paid, I probably wouldn't be complaining publicly. :-) It's probably better for both interests if these types of engagements are paid.
    • fhd2 2y ago
      I've worked with paid take home tests for a while, but stopped again. Hiring managers started to make the assignments more convoluted, i.e. stopped respecting the candidate's time. Candidates, on the flip side, always said they don't want to bother with the bureaucracy of writing an invoice and reporting it for their taxes etc., so didn't want to be paid. Now my logic is: If a take home test is designed to take more than two hours, we need to redesign it. Two hours of interviews, two hours of take home test, that ought to suffice. If we're still unsure after that, I sometimes offered the candidate a time limited freelance position, paid obviously. We've ended up hiring everyone who went into that process though.
      • avandekleut 2y ago
        I just finished interviewing with a company called Infisical. The take-homes were crazy (the kind of thing that normally takes a few days or a week). I was paid but it took me 12 hours.
        • nikkwong 2y ago
          Was the process worth it?