• mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    85·
    3 months ago

    I once had a company give me a take home assignment on bitbucket. Private repo. Got the work, made the API endpoint that did the thing.

    Followed up with them. No response. Nothing for a week. Then suddenly I get an email that they merged my code and they forgot that I had access to the repo. I could see that they were selectively merging canadates code into their own system. When I asked them with a followup if they had any questions on the code, no response and suddenly I had no access on the git side.

    Yeah they were crowd sourcing an app. I just did a bunch of free work. Never again. Nowadays I just reject jobs that require any coding outside an interview. It’s a two way street, it’s not worth giving people free work.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 months ago

      I once had a company give me an assignment that sounded very much like what you are describing. They said I should allocate 10h at once to implement a real-life task that they had and that their developers “already solved”.

      At that point I only wrote a handful messages with their recruiter and hadn’t even spoken to a human there. I didn’t even know anything about the team, my potential boss or the project at that time.

      I didn’t even answer back, just ghosted them. I’m not going to spend multiple hundreds of Euros of my time just for some assignent to maybe qualify for an interview.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    581·
    3 months ago

    Take home project? My rate is $250/hr with a minimum of 4 hours.

    Say it with a straight face. This is business.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
    38·
    3 months ago

    Companies get one interview, with a human being.

    Anything else is a scam and we need to make it clear we aren’t interested in wasting our time.

    “If you want me completing work as a part of this application you need to pay me for my time.”

    Employers aren’t enttitled to labor, they aren’t entitled to make us jump through hoops, and we’re at a point in labor dynamics where they need employees more than we need employers.

    Keep putting them in their place

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
      91·
      3 months ago

      we’re at a point in labor dynamics where they need employees more than we need employers.

      What makes your say that?

      • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        Employees will always be more necessary than employers.

        But you’re right about there being a declining job market as we enter another big recession/depression

    • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      34·
      3 months ago

      What about those online 2 hour coding challenges to qualify for an interview? Those aren’t hard problems, but mainly to weed out the unqualified. However, I failed my first 3 coding challenges across 2 years before I got an interview. It’s such a BS metric to make all the test cases pass before even considering them. I knew once I got the actual interview, I would be golden due to my experience, but it was still hell getting there.