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."

Comments

Re:Probably illegal.

[Anonymous Coward]

1 week beachfront condo rental is compensation. As long as that is over minimum wage (~$300/wk at $7.35/hr), then it's probably legal.

Re:The real downside.

[Anonymous Coward]

To be honest I know a lot of good developers that primarily use scripting languages (Ruby, PHP, Python, etc) for their day jobs. They know they aren't the best languages ever developed, but they have fun writing stuff in them and get paid a good amount, because of their skill level. They could tell you exactly how the language works internally as well if you ask them. Not all of the people who write in scripting languages are bad.

Paid contract?

[i_ate_god]

I had an interview for an out of city employer. It resulted in me being given a PAID two week contract to see if I'm worth hiring. I forget what it was I made, but I was paid $2000.

that $2000 was part of my moving expenses if I was hired, and if I was not, I still got $2000, because I signed a contract stating if I finished the work on time, I get $2000.

This seemed like a good way to do things and benefits both the company and myself. I get money, company gets proof I can not only code, but be professional (meetings on time, meeting deadlines, etc).