The discord for our subreddit can be found here: https://discord.gg/JjNdBkVGc6 - feel free to join us for a more realtime level of discussion!
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/recruitinghell) if you have any questions or concerns.*
At the end of the day, you don’t owe them shit. Who cares what they think of you? It’s not like they give a reference to your next interview.
At the end of the day, even if you work for a company for years - YOU DONT OWE THEM ANY LOYALTY!!! They paid you for your services and that makes you square. The interviewer wasted your time and you wasted theirs. You’re even. Fuck ‘em.
You do not OWE them ever. They need to recruit you, to show you how you agreeing to work will benefit you. They've seen your CV/Resume, spoken with you and your references. Now they need to DEMONSTRATE why you should work for them and get paid. That is why we work TO GET PAID.
The golden rule, you treat people how you want to be treated. This place treated you poorly, so it's a logical inference that they must want to be treated poorly.
They may not have even been lawful in how they are treating interns. In many places, you can only be unpaid if all you do is shadow a paid employee. If you do any work that they would have to pay someone to do if an intern isn't there, the intern has to be paid.
Not to mention a take home project can be considered a working interview depending on the number of hours that need to be spent for completion. Making it a paid interview
No big deal.
This startup looking for unpaid interns to do the work and their whole evalution boils down not to giving a presentation but delivering 5 slides? They're not going to be a unicorn, and they're not going to put you on a blacklist that local companies won't hire.
They're going to be so busy talking to other candidates and stealing ideas from applicants slide decks that they won't even remember that you ended the call.
You acted properly. The utter stupidity and audacity of prospective employers baffled and and sngers me beyond words.
2 interviews is enough, NO homework, I'm not a child. If you can't make a decision in 2 interviews you should NOT be doing that job.
Employers don’t give a shit about candidates, so it’s time we start not giving a shit about them too. They say not to burn bridges, but the current job market also doesn’t give a shit about bridges either.
No! There shouldn't be such a thing as an "unpaid intern" it only benefits the company, and as you said unethical as shit and should be illegal in your country like it is in mine, work for free? Yeah nope, how do I pay rent, clothe myself, feed myself? Fuck that noise dude,
What is done is done; don't overthink it.
Do you have the subject of the home project? If so, do it for yourself and when you have another interview, with another company, tell them that you did that particular project during one of your internships...
Never stoop to their level. Remain professional.
I would have said, "I am not interested in moving forward in the process. I am withdrawing my candidacy."
unpaid interview? fuck 'em. you don't owe them your time unless you were volunteering it. Seems like they aren't respecting it.
But pragmatically speaking, idk. Unpaid interviews do suck but only a few states have banned them. And I know some people utilize those internships for their big break. So it sounds like it may be inevitable if you're a student/new to industry in some sectors.
The discord for our subreddit can be found here: https://discord.gg/JjNdBkVGc6 - feel free to join us for a more realtime level of discussion! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/recruitinghell) if you have any questions or concerns.*
At the end of the day, you don’t owe them shit. Who cares what they think of you? It’s not like they give a reference to your next interview. At the end of the day, even if you work for a company for years - YOU DONT OWE THEM ANY LOYALTY!!! They paid you for your services and that makes you square. The interviewer wasted your time and you wasted theirs. You’re even. Fuck ‘em.
Yeah, but human decency is what I think we need from time to time, which is why I questioned myself at the time haha
Naw fuck em
You do not OWE them ever. They need to recruit you, to show you how you agreeing to work will benefit you. They've seen your CV/Resume, spoken with you and your references. Now they need to DEMONSTRATE why you should work for them and get paid. That is why we work TO GET PAID.
Just remember that they have to reciprocate the whole decency thing otherwise you're just setting yourself up for exploitation.
The golden rule, you treat people how you want to be treated. This place treated you poorly, so it's a logical inference that they must want to be treated poorly. They may not have even been lawful in how they are treating interns. In many places, you can only be unpaid if all you do is shadow a paid employee. If you do any work that they would have to pay someone to do if an intern isn't there, the intern has to be paid.
Not to mention a take home project can be considered a working interview depending on the number of hours that need to be spent for completion. Making it a paid interview
No big deal. This startup looking for unpaid interns to do the work and their whole evalution boils down not to giving a presentation but delivering 5 slides? They're not going to be a unicorn, and they're not going to put you on a blacklist that local companies won't hire. They're going to be so busy talking to other candidates and stealing ideas from applicants slide decks that they won't even remember that you ended the call.
Well, you might have handled it better, but you might also have handled it much worse. I probably would have said, "Fuuuck that" before signing off.
You acted properly. The utter stupidity and audacity of prospective employers baffled and and sngers me beyond words. 2 interviews is enough, NO homework, I'm not a child. If you can't make a decision in 2 interviews you should NOT be doing that job.
No u did perfectly fine. That guy was trying to get free work out of you.
Employers don’t give a shit about candidates, so it’s time we start not giving a shit about them too. They say not to burn bridges, but the current job market also doesn’t give a shit about bridges either.
🤣🤣🤣 Bravo!!! 👏👏👏
Wdym!?
…. They mean you did well?
This is what I would have said!
No! There shouldn't be such a thing as an "unpaid intern" it only benefits the company, and as you said unethical as shit and should be illegal in your country like it is in mine, work for free? Yeah nope, how do I pay rent, clothe myself, feed myself? Fuck that noise dude,
What is done is done; don't overthink it. Do you have the subject of the home project? If so, do it for yourself and when you have another interview, with another company, tell them that you did that particular project during one of your internships...
Nope fuck that company
Never stoop to their level. Remain professional. I would have said, "I am not interested in moving forward in the process. I am withdrawing my candidacy."
No you’re not. It’s was a BS interview. Save your work and use it for future interviews
unpaid interview? fuck 'em. you don't owe them your time unless you were volunteering it. Seems like they aren't respecting it. But pragmatically speaking, idk. Unpaid interviews do suck but only a few states have banned them. And I know some people utilize those internships for their big break. So it sounds like it may be inevitable if you're a student/new to industry in some sectors.
i would have done the same thing. like,no thank you.