[AaronBBrown]

Unless I'm currently unemployed, if someone asked me to do this I would politely say, "thank you, but no thank you." It has been my experience that there are oodles of development and operations jobs out there and not enough candidates to fill the positions. As a prospective employee, if I have multiple companies interested in hiring me, I'm not going to take days off of work in the off-chance that I might get an offer from you. And giving that time up for free is a non-starter. At least pay me a market-rate contracting fee.

I keep hearing this advice repeated. Maybe I live in Crazytown, but I doubt it's realistic at any scale and likely self-selects for young, inexperienced, or presently unemployed candidates.