[Baypiggies] Job "trial day"?

[Hasan Diwan]

Seth,
I'm not sure what you're opposed to -- I was compensated for my time by the
company, in addition to the salary I commanded as part of the company. -- H
On 21 Oct 2016 8:09 p.m., "seth f" <sfseth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think this practice is reasonable, nor do I think a "coding
challenge" is reasonable if the hiring company wants to retain rights to
the code that is produced.
>
> If a hiring organization can't figure out whether or not they want you on
the team from phone calls and in-person interviews, I say they're not
working hard enough on figuring out how to interview candidates.  If I do
work that shows what I can do, that's not suddenly their property.
>
> If one assumes that there is a huge variety of technologies we might have
experience with and what employers happen to have chosen, be it Docker,
Xen, Vmware, Jenkins/Hudson, Salt, Ansible, Puppet, chef, CFengine, fabric,
... I haven't even gotten into databases or OS's yet...  how is this
practice any different from treating a candidate pool as a freebie tutoring
session?   I mean I'm happy to talk about this stuff, but if it occupies
time where i'd otherwise be interviewing, and they're asking me to do it
for free, it seems like a pretty clear exploit to me.
>
> ~seth
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> I remember when I interviewed for a company, did a quiz, didn't get the
job, but was compensated for my time. Not sure what the company was off the
top of my head. -- H
>>
>>
>> On 21 Oct 2016 2:56 p.m., "Anna Ravenscroft" <annaraven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So, this company I interviewed with wants to set up an 8 hour "trial
day". Has anyone had one of these? What's your experience? And are they
usually paid or unpaid? They haven't mentioned either way yet and I'm
curious to get some your input before I go further with it.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance. Feel free to email me offlist.
>>>
>>> --
>>> cordially,
>>> Anna
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