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Re:I spent three months working full time to get a job by andai on Sunday March 05, 2017 @07:59AM (#13795818)
You just gave me an idea.. you could actually run an entire company on nothing but free work by candidates doing "homework assignments"...
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Re:I spent three months working full time to get a job by lettersdigits on Sunday March 05, 2017 @10:07AM (#13796240)
:)

it is probably something like : 1. go to upwork

2. find a 2-3 hours task (eg: scrape entire site [sitename].com, design a logo etc. etc.

3. give the same task to 5 different candidates

4. choose the best one

5. make profit and gain upwork cred

6. send a "thanks but we chose a different candidate" email to all the candidates

7. repeat

(edit:formatting)

edit2: you can even let candidate X make a code review on candidate Y.

step 8: automate the process and go public

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Re:I spent three months working full time to get a job by user5994461 on Sunday March 05, 2017 @10:53AM (#13796459)
Managing all the candidates and submissions is actually a full time work.
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