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Re:We only hire the trendiest by aurelianito on Monday March 21, 2016 @09:19AM (#11327841)
Actually, for actors it does. If you go to a casting session, you should get payed for it. That's because they had a first chance to filter you out and they are not entitled to waste people's time. For the first filter, they use their CV and their reel (video of the actor showing itself).

I think that the same rules should apply for programming jobs. Just look at my resume and my publicly available code (that is linked from my resume). If you decide I am good enough to interview me, pay a reasonable hourly rate. This would stop the abusive practice of giving big problems to solve in our free time.

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Re:We only hire the trendiest by tptacek on Monday March 21, 2016 @09:30AM (#11327900)
If this is true of programmers as well (and I have no opinion on whether it should be), it should be even more true of standard on-site job interviews, which are more disruptive to your work schedule and more demanding of your time and attention. But, of course, people do not generally get paid to go on job interviews.
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Re:We only hire the trendiest by zingermc on Monday March 21, 2016 @10:47AM (#11328417)
It's at least reasonable to cover travel costs for interviewers. I was given a $40/day stipend for food and reimbursed gas and hotel when I interviewed at my current job.
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Re:We only hire the trendiest by tptacek on Monday March 21, 2016 @10:49AM (#11328429)
Yes, the norm is that the interviewer pays expenses.
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Re:We only hire the trendiest by aurelianito on Monday March 21, 2016 @10:58AM (#11328473)
Off course. Castings are on-site.
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