Given I'm in a situation similar to OP's — took 4 weeks just to catch up with sleep and dismantle anxiety.
I was approached about a job. The process includes a home assessment with a 5 day deadline. Definitely it's doable, it's a filter yadda yadda.
But I'm asking you if the scene is really swarmed with impostors and bullshitters that you have to enforce people working for free for you to handpick? I call home assessments a tool for locating tractable employees. You know, those who wouldn't mind the OT every 2nd week of the months.
Hell, they already proved motivated working for free when they solved that home task you gave then.
You wouldn't ask the cook to work for free just to taste his dish and then decline without paying him.
You wouldn't do that to a driver either.
To a gardener.
Why the heck does the developer has to jump through those hoops then.
> You wouldn't ask the cook to work for free just to taste his dish and then decline without paying him.
Yes, if you are hiring a cook for a restaurant (which, admittedly, most people don't do, because they don't run restaurants) or wedding or other event (which more people have experience with) you will, quite likely, do exactly that.
Given I'm in a situation similar to OP's — took 4 weeks just to catch up with sleep and dismantle anxiety.
I was approached about a job. The process includes a home assessment with a 5 day deadline. Definitely it's doable, it's a filter yadda yadda.
But I'm asking you if the scene is really swarmed with impostors and bullshitters that you have to enforce people working for free for you to handpick? I call home assessments a tool for locating tractable employees. You know, those who wouldn't mind the OT every 2nd week of the months.
Hell, they already proved motivated working for free when they solved that home task you gave then.
You wouldn't ask the cook to work for free just to taste his dish and then decline without paying him. You wouldn't do that to a driver either. To a gardener.
Why the heck does the developer has to jump through those hoops then.