Timeline for Should I play a "bad cop"? Is it professional to provoke the candidates during an interview?
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| Jul 1, 2013 at 14:39 | comment | added | Shauna | @JoeMcMahon - While that's an option, I suspect that such behavior is nearly unheard of due to the HR/accounting/legal overhead. Not to mention, dealing with the NDAs and other paperwork just for an interview would be pretty likely to turn off the potential employee. Keep in mind, as I said, an interview is just as much about convincing them to come work for you as it is them convincing you to hire them. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 1:58 | comment | added | Joe McMahon | Then pay them for a day. If you're that close to hiring them, and one day's salary gives you a definite "no", you've saved a huge amount of wasted time, effort on the part of managers and other devs to make them "work out", and whatever money you pay them before finding out they won't work out for you. And if it's a yes, you were going to pay them anyway. | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 14:43 | comment | added | Shauna | @foampile - Because you'd be having non-employees doing the work of actual employees, without those non-employees getting compensated. IE - Interviewee's "code day" project is to write a tool that can merge the data of two specific database tables. These tables are actually something the company needs merged. They essentially just go free labor for it. | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 14:33 | comment | added | amphibient | why would real tasks be "getting into ethics territory again"? just curious | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 13:37 | history | answered | Shauna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |