| I personally always favor directness. That said, your post is pretty inconclusive: there's a big difference between 4x1 hour interviews and 4x2 hour interviews. You do realize that working there would probably give them broad rights over your open source project, right? Standard employee contracts assign work that you do on their hardware, during their time, or that are directly related to their business. You certainly tick box 3. You also aren't clear if you want the job. If you want it, you're probably going to have to do some hoop jumping. If you don't, then no hoop jumping required. Anyway: Hey, thanks for reaching out and it was a pleasure meeting you over zoom. It certainly sounds like [X] has some interesting work, and I'd obviously love to see my project deployed. Given my experience in the area, I can definitely provide [YY]. However, to be direct: while I'd love to check culture fit, your proposed use of my project has validated my ability to write software. I'm not interested in a full interview cycle including code tests. If you're interested in proceeding, I'm happy to spend up to two hours meeting with your team. Alternatively, perhaps you would rather engage in a consulting relationship where I retain ownership over my project? Cheers. |