One Company's Week-Long Interview Process 362
jfruh writes "What's the longest tech interview you've had to sit through — two hours? Eight? Ruby on Rails devs who want to work for Hashrocket need to travel to Florida and do pair-programming on real projects for a week before they can be hired. The upside is that you'll be put up in a beachfront condo for the week with your significant other; the downside is that you'll be doing real work for a week for little or no pay and no guarantee of a job slot."
I've done simular... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Probably illegal. (Score:2, Informative)
They probably just call it an "internship."
Captcha: Pretend.
6 Grueling Hours. (Score:4, Informative)
It wasn't enough that the position I was interviewing for was for someone who got promoted out of it. And I knew him (but not that I was interviewing for his job, until I got there) we of course hit it off, but his boss was the one that needed convincing. I get showed around, described the job, I take some tests, where I ace them, save for the questions that were either asked poorly or the answers wrong (2 out of 20) and we all agreed I was an exact match, and even slightly over-qualified. We got this feeling early on, but they continued to grill me through the full battery of people and tests. After 6 hours (We get a1/2hr for lunch)
We finish up, call the recruiter it looks good... They elect not to make an offer because I would be too good for the job. never mind the pay was better, the location was better, the industry was better and it was a topic I was very interested in.
Re:Probably illegal. (Score:4, Informative)
This happens in restaurants every day. Cooks work a few shifts for free prior to being hired. The French term is stagiare. The difference is cooks work for free to get minimum wage jobs.
Re:6 Grueling Hours. (Score:2, Informative)
>> They elect not to make an offer because I would be too good for the job.
Amazing that they could say that with a straight face. More amazing is that you actually believed them.
Our company does this for 6 months... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:The real downside. (Score:3, Informative)
Yes, I recognize the language's many obvious (and many not-so-obvious) failings...
You're underselling the problems with PHP. Seriously. PHP is a hideous, three-headed stepchild of a programming language and I know nothing about it that's fun, functional, or useful. Its not Fun, or Funny. http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ [veekun.com].