[lesuorac]

Some interviews are paid.

It's extremely rare. Although I suspect it should be more common. If your salaried employees burn through ~$1500 in the time it takes to interview a candidate then you're kinda saving money by just forking over ~$500 to the candidate to do a take home interview if your employees can then interview less candidates.

[charcircuit]

Earning $500 for applying to accompany would incentivize people to farm this reward which would clog up the hiring pipeline with people who don't actually want the job.