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deniswolf

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    Comment #44405407

    Considering the discourse of the past two years and personal experience, I am afraid to say that yes, those are most likely very real people who very openly ignore 50% of the conte…

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    Comment #44405347

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    Comment #6663245

    I was born in one of the poorest countries in Asia, so I can imagine rather low quality of life and working conditions. And I know pretty well that people who work in real old scho…

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    Comment #6658758

    Thanks :)

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    Comment #6657416

    If recruiters from the company well known for free hackers culture are doing this today - I would assume that less open companies could start free working month practices tomorrow.…

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    Comment #6657388

    Thanks for sharing your experience. I have heard a lot of good things about Facebook before - and my totally opposite experience was one of the reason for exaggerated reaction. I a…

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    Comment #6657223

    An update was published after Facebook's representative contacted me. Let's hope I was the only guy who was treated in such an ugly way.

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    Comment #6657012

    Voluntarily - it's awesome. I'm trying to code out of office as much as possible - doing toy projects or checking on interesting open-source code. The problem, from my point of vie…

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    Comment #6656897

    But they automatically send this without even talking to person. They already assume that it's fine and I should be happy to do so. That's why I call it sweatshop approach.

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    Comment #6656887

    I'm afraid that Facebook will make a precedent that will turn 10 hours free coding in a standard, moreover - before even a phone interview.

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    Comment #6656848

    The point is - it was BEFORE phone/person interview. I actually like coding during the interview - when I in person can show my skills and approach - it just helps to understand ea…

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    Comment #6656825

    If it would be a real time interview - for sure. But after sending CV I just got that mail with task. Let me underline it - they never TALKED to me. They asked if I want to send th…

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    Comment #6656809

    Yup, agreed with this completely. But it doesn't mean this is a right way. I definitely don't want end up in a future 10 years later where every company asks for unpaid work as an …

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    Comment #6656794

    Thanks. Yeah, I understand how it seems to be childish, but I couldn't expect this behavior and approach from Facebook, known for it's great open culture. It rather reminded me too…

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    Comment #6656659

    10 hours. It's the time I have spent last week for some open-source coding. I was happy to give my time for free to those projects I supported. It's about 10 hours that I have spen…

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    Facebook has just invited me to interview and now I’m pissed off

    A lot of people are dreaming about working for one those top companies: Google, Facebook, Apple. Here is a public response to an invitation from Facebook - it seems the Social Netw…