Re:Ask HN: What's with all the unpaid interview projects?
by 2rsf on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @07:58AM
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Actually there is a legal problem here- if you are not an employee you must be able to provide an invoice, which most of us cannot.
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Re:Ask HN: What's with all the unpaid interview projects?
by _throwawayyyyyy on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:12PM
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What do you mean? You can whip up an invoice in Google docs or use a service like Wave or something for free.
The trick is: who do you send the invoice to, and will they ever pay it?
I've invoiced companies that made me do unpaid projects and while it makes me feel better it has never once gotten me paid.
Re:Ask HN: What's with all the unpaid interview projects?
by 2rsf on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:53AM
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> You can whip up an invoice in Google docs or use a service like Wave or something for free.
The invoice is not the problem, handling taxes is. In most countries (I'm not an American) an Invoice means that you are self employed and that you should pay taxes on that part as self employed.
There are services around it that charge percentage of the transaction and I'm not sure will handle such small amounts.