Each of our applicants believes the fake task we give them is meant for production too. In reality, it's a very old, inactive project. We simply adjust timest

Each of our applicants believes the fake task we give them is meant for production too. In reality, it's a very old, inactive project. We simply adjust timestamps to make it look current. It is presented as if it were the bread and butter of our biggest client. And we do our best to make everything seem realistic. I doubt any applicant, before being hired, has ever figured out that the "feature" they had worked on was something that had been built dozens of times already. It's always the same. The "product" they're working on is the remnants of a side-project that went nowhere. But like I said, we do pay people for their time unless we hire them. We do it onsite. And we do one 7-hour workday. And we pay $250. And we do that mainly so nobody is suspicious that they had been duped into working for free. It's possible but imo, unlikely that your work is actually making its way into a shipping product.