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Just had my reasoning for not doing technical projects for interviews proven.

Pass the first 2 stages of interview (including showing some personal portfolio projects) then after a week of hearing nothing get sent a technical project to complete.

Spend every spare moment for a week polishing this thing, decent front end, quick and efficient back end, low traffic between fe, be, persistence etc.

Submit the code at midday ready for the interview the following day, only for the company to phone at 5pm and say all is fine and the code is great for the final interview (walkthrough) the next day, then phone 5:10pm phone and pull the position.

That company has just had free work done which should have cost 1 weeks worth of fees, using the premise of a job at the end of it, only to take the code that they are super happy with and run with no payout.

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  • 1
    5y
    It's always surprising to me that these kind of tasks are not being compensated for... Shouldn't there be some kind of law or at least a possibility to prevent bastards like these to run away with your work??!
  • 1
    5y
    @Demolishun sounds good. But wouldn't it be too hard to check whether they used your code or not? Then you would have to file for the right to scan *all* their source files for matching patterns or something?

    Edit: nowhere near experienced with laws, but I find this quite interesting how someone could protect their code from these things
  • 1
    5y
    @Demolishun yeah when you get in contact with bigger companies it's probably not worth the effort other than going public with it or smth.

    The ultimate payback would be to create backdoors in your code for these kinds of tests lol
  • 1
    5y
    @Demolishun yeah not the best way to show a company that you want to work for them
  • 0
    5y
    They can't actually use your work. You still own it. If you can prove they're using it you've got a decent case.
  • 1
    5y
    And as long as suckers keep doing the free work these companies will keep doing this.
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