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this sounds like an aquihire. can anyone confirm?

We have seen this situation crop up with employers who refuse to do try outs. these great devs then get picked up by employers who try devs out PS I work for GroupTalent so I am bi…

Ideally the time you spend writing code is both compensated and under a Work For Hire of the company trying you out. Your current employer owns the IP of whatever you do during wor…

Hi this is Manny, CEO of GroupTalent. I wanted to add context to the pivot comment. More than a pivot, we expanded our offerings to include try outs and full time opportunities. It…

Hi - I am the founder of GroupTalent. Mahmoud above has had experience on the hiring side of our platform. I can put you in contact with other devs (with their approval of course) …

Contrary to the other comment, moonlighting is just as easy for someone FT employed to try as someone who is no employed. The FT employed can make 20-30hrs available a week to try …

We are using the dating model to the recruiting process. Could not control the title of the article, but thx for pointing that out

some of them do. We have had developers moonlight at other companies while keeping their day job to try out a new company before making a jump. It is less risk indeed

Hi - this is Manny, CEO of GT. If you a try a company and then FT it may be a great outcome for you too. As you may in the long term not be a good fit for that job. Plus in the pro…

this is probably the most worthwhile response in the whole tread. From running GroupTalent I have seen the most successful freelancers (those pulling in over $100/hr) do these thin…

that was the funniest thing i read today ;)

Agreed. Also, the reason consulting rates are not high is not b/c of the benefits (that makes at most 20% of the diff between consulting and full time rates). The difference is unc…

Agreed. unsatisfactory to read an article about data with very little data in it!