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by kuschku 611 days ago
> Code Test for engineers - We expect the code test will take no more than a couple of days, and this is done asynchronously over the course of approximately a week

Doesn't that run foul of minimum wage laws and social security laws? At that point you're doing unpaid work.
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bityard 611 days ago
Under US labor laws at least, you only have to pay someone if they are doing work that benefits the company materially somehow. They would be forbidden from grabbing bugs out of their queue and saying, here go fix this and maybe we'll hire you. Same with unpaid internships which are _supposed_ to be training and shadowing opportunities only, no actual work being done.

That said, I did just peek and my notes and I read that candidates are paid two week's salary for the coding assignment.

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swores 611 days ago
How is it legally different to sitting a one hour interview? You're not getting paid for that either, that doesn't make it a minimum wage violation because its not doing work.

I think their code test / interview process sounds terrible, but the two days of code test is part of the interview, it's not producing code for the company to use.

(I do think that any company that wants applicants to spend that much time should pay for that time, but only for ethical, not legal, reasons.)

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