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One Company's Week-Long Interview Process
jfruh writes "What's the longest tech interview you've had to sit through — two hours? Eight? Ruby on Rails devs who want to work for Hashrocket need to travel to Florida and do pair-programming on real projects for a week before they can be hired. The upside is that you'll be put up in a beachfront condo for the week with your significant other; the downside is that you'll be doing real work for a week for little or no pay and no guarantee of a job slot."
only to be told that I finished the project during the interview process and my services would no longer be needed. They then had the audacity to contact me months later to see if I wanted another go at working for them. Free labor is free labor, dont fall for it unless you REALLY need to.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
They probably just call it an "internship."
Captcha: Pretend.
It wasn't enough that the position I was interviewing for was for someone who got promoted out of it. And I knew him (but not that I was interviewing for his job, until I got there) we of course hit it off, but his boss was the one that needed convincing. I get showed around, described the job, I take some tests, where I ace them, save for the questions that were either asked poorly or the answers wrong (2 out of 20) and we all agreed I was an exact match, and even slightly over-qualified. We got this feeling early on, but they continued to grill me through the full battery of people and tests. After 6 hours (We get a1/2hr for lunch)
We finish up, call the recruiter it looks good... They elect not to make an offer because I would be too good for the job. never mind the pay was better, the location was better, the industry was better and it was a topic I was very interested in.
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This happens in restaurants every day. Cooks work a few shifts for free prior to being hired. The French term is stagiare. The difference is cooks work for free to get minimum wage jobs.
but we pay them inflated contractor wages. For the most part, we don't hire anyone direct, but convert contractors to full-time.
All ideas^H^H^H^H^Hprocesses in this post are Patent Pending. (as well as the process of patenting all postings)
Yes, I recognize the language's many obvious (and many not-so-obvious) failings...
You're underselling the problems with PHP. Seriously. PHP is a hideous, three-headed stepchild of a programming language and I know nothing about it that's fun, functional, or useful. Its not Fun, or Funny. http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'