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Re: Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok

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Post by pc86 »

water8 wrote: post #3

Well did you do any research about the company before dedicating six hours of your life? At the end of the day you got more programming experience and avoided a toxic situation. Sounds like a win to me

What a bad take. Are you volunteering your time for free on Upwork so you can "get more programming experience" and avoid a bunch of toxic situations? Of course not.

Re: Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok

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Post by water8 »

mathverse wrote: post #7
water8 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s also a lot of people that think the world owes them something. Why do they owe you a response? OP agreed to do an assignment did but did they get the company to agree to call them back on a set date? A good job is like a hot girl they don’t have time to text back all the rejects

Are you serious? It is a common courtesy to at least reply with a generic email.

But not everyone is courteous. So instead of writing an emotional post a frustration every time it happens you should just accept human nature and move on without wasting time and dwelling on the past

Re: Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok

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Post by lr4444lr »

I just don't do them at all. It sets bad terms for the employer / employee relationship IMHO. I realize some devs just aren't that in demand yet and may have to subject themselves to this, but you should do your damndest once you get the job to build the skills not to have to stand for it in your next one.

Re: Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok

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Post by II2II »

water8 wrote: post #6
usgroup wrote: post #4

That sort of thing happens —- try and be really clear what you expect back if you do an assignment. Put it on an email. Otherwise I’d write to them and tell them that you have an issue. Chase a bit, presumably you don’t know the reason for the ghosting. Having said that they could be ghosting you because they are assholes. There are unfortunately a lot of inconsiderate assholes in tech.

There’s also a lot of people that think the world owes them something. Why do they owe you a response? OP agreed to do an assignment did but did they get the company to agree to call them back on a set date? A good job is like a hot girl they don’t have time to text back all the rejects

There is an implied social relationship here. They are asking for a considerable amount of work, so they should have the courtesy to respond. Something as simple as saying that they received and considered the work but they are not moving forward with the application. If they cannot say anything further, they can make it clear that company policy does not allow them to comment on applications so no further communications will be reviewed.

Re: Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok

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Post by water8 »

pc86 wrote: post #11
water8 wrote: post #3

Well did you do any research about the company before dedicating six hours of your life? At the end of the day you got more programming experience and avoided a toxic situation. Sounds like a win to me

What a bad take. Are you volunteering your time for free on Upwork so you can "get more programming experience" and avoid a bunch of toxic situations? Of course not.

I’m saying when you apply to a random company you’re going to get random results

Re: Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok

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Post by jjgreen »

For a 2015 ML job I applied for:

    | We are wondering if you would like to attempt our code challenge (C/C++ or
    | Python). It is a Computer Vision problem which we think can be solved in
    | about 8 hours.
    
    I'm afraid I wouldn't, 8 hours is far too much for a interview
    problem.
    
    However, thanks for considering my application.

Re: Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok

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Post by water8 »

salil999 wrote: post #10
water8 wrote: post #3

Well did you do any research about the company before dedicating six hours of your life? At the end of the day you got more programming experience and avoided a toxic situation. Sounds like a win to me

You don't interview to get "programming experience". You're interviewing to get a job. Definitely not a win.

Well apparently he needed it because they felt his coding skills weren’t good enough to hire
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