Re:Ask HN: Dontrecruit.me – A website to collect stories abo...
by vorpalhex on Friday November 16, 2018 @09:47AM
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Here is how this always goes for me:
1. Initial convo, things seem interesting, no salary details from recruiter, lots of questions about how much I make
2. They ask me to sign an NDA, a bunch of other paperwork, and spend a bunch of time in meetings doing dumb whiteboard questions
3. "You're amazing! Can we hire you for 50k below market? It's totally worth it, we have a $200 xbox that you can stare at while you work 60 hour weeks trying to fix our abortion of a product!"
So, unfortunately, my rules have become:
+ Salary range upfront. If you can't give me a number, I can't give you the time of day.
+ No NDAs or other BS unless you give me the $600 for my lawyer to go over it. Protip, my lawyer is going to reject it.
+ You get one day of whiteboarding/whatever. I don't do follow up visits. I don't do "projects" or "homework". I'm not implementing the twitter api for you. Sorry, spent too many days doing projects for free.
1. Initial convo, things seem interesting, no salary details from recruiter, lots of questions about how much I make
2. They ask me to sign an NDA, a bunch of other paperwork, and spend a bunch of time in meetings doing dumb whiteboard questions
3. "You're amazing! Can we hire you for 50k below market? It's totally worth it, we have a $200 xbox that you can stare at while you work 60 hour weeks trying to fix our abortion of a product!"
So, unfortunately, my rules have become:
+ Salary range upfront. If you can't give me a number, I can't give you the time of day.
+ No NDAs or other BS unless you give me the $600 for my lawyer to go over it. Protip, my lawyer is going to reject it.
+ You get one day of whiteboarding/whatever. I don't do follow up visits. I don't do "projects" or "homework". I'm not implementing the twitter api for you. Sorry, spent too many days doing projects for free.