> LD (frustrated): "But I need these features out in the field today. Anyway, I don't see what the problem is, it's only a day's worth of work." "This is meant

> LD (frustrated): "But I need these features out in the field today. Anyway, I don't see what the problem is, it's only a day's worth of work." "This is meant to be to assess my competence. They're gambling your deadline on either being extremely sure that I am going to be good at this job, in which case they're trying to get a free day's work out of me. Or they're taking a worse gamble on someone they're not really sure of, in which case they have no respect for you and by extension their workers. Either way, you shouldn't be using work that actually matters to test new entrants; in the former case it exploits me, in the latter case it abuses you. So, given it's clear I'm not a good cultural fit to this company, I'm going to have to decline."