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I was mostly referring to creating an instant answer for their search engine before you can even submit an application. Though the potential for continuing to
by notoriginal 12y ago
I was mostly referring to creating an instant answer for their search engine before you can even submit an application.
Though the potential for continuing to work for free for a few months after that only compounds the problem in my opinion.
- mcv 12y agoHow much work is that? It sounds like something that might be a few hours of work, maybe? I haven't looked that closely at it. Personally I'm totally okay with expecting a code sample. The best hiring process I've been through had me writing some trivial code in the employer's favourite framework (which required me to learn the basics of that framework), and then present my code to the programmers, who would ask questions and then (by email) vote. It was not code that would be used in production, but it was a great way to look at how people worked. In the DuckDuckGo case, it looks like it might be something that would be used in production, which would make it a bit less ethical, as it would make it technically work for free.
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- notoriginal 12y agoI agree. I think a few hours is a good estimate - once I saw that the instructions were starting to get complicated I said forget it.