[mahyarm]

The company is paying you money. The company is the customer of your services. This is why.

[hayd]

Except they're not. Companies rarely, if ever, pay interviewees.

Sure, it's true if you become an employee or contractor... but til then they're speculating (as are you).

[mahyarm]

Kind of like a salesman trying to sell you something... Enterprise software companies don't get paid until they say buy, and in the mean time the company hasn't been paid anything.