Tech companies are famous for coddling their workers but after mass layoffs the industry's culture has shifted. Engineers say that getting hired can require days of work on unpaid assignments.
  • bedrooms
    5•4 months ago

    I mean, if you argue that way during the interview I’d pass… Nobody thinks you’re asked to do all that in a one-day interview.

    • @[email protected]
      4•4 months ago

      Why should the interviewee assume that?

      This could very well be a test to see if the applicant has an idea of how a project scales or how they need to interact with other departments or track down compliance information. It could also test the applicant’s ability to provide a sanity check to a boss’s idea before they pitch something that the team can’t actually do