Interview Frustrations
12 hours of unpaid labor to just get your foot in the door? I&#x27;ll take the hardest conceivable pass, please.<p>If a company sees no issue with asking for a TED talk just to consider you for a position, imagine what kind of work&#x2F;life balance you can expect once hired. What kind of last minute assignments, what kind of weekend calls to wipe some higher up&#x27;s rear end after they foot-mouthed with a client, and promised the moon, and now you&#x27;ve gotta go to Kroger and find 40 tons of cheese and carve it up so they don&#x27;t need to look stupid.<p>I&#x27;ve said it before and I&#x27;ll say it again: we as software devs&#x2F;code monkeys&#x2F;devops&#x2F;admins have fucking worth. You should not EVER be willing to put yourself through this kind of meat grinder, not just to avoid demeaning yourself, but for demeaning everyone else who practices your craft alongside you. They&#x27;re not worth so little as to need to do that, and neither are you.<p>You want me to write code for your company? Awesome, I&#x27;d love to do that. Pay me.