SWE interviews should be paid

Re:SWE interviews should be paid by wpietri on Sunday August 22, 2021 @01:03PM (#28267238)

Now add up the money you spent to interview those 500 people using the fully loaded per-hour cost of all the staff time. It'll be much larger than the cost of paying your interviewees.

Indeed, this might save money on net at a lot of companies. So many places are much more careful about spending cash than labor hours. I could imagine paying interview subjects could add a crispness and a focus to hiring processes that is often absent.

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Re:SWE interviews should be paid by jcims on Sunday August 22, 2021 @01:15PM (#28267383)

I'm not arguing against paying folks, I'm saying the paperwork overhead is substantial and will bias the process against those that don't want to cough up tax info for every company they apply to.

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Re:SWE interviews should be paid by wpietri on Sunday August 22, 2021 @10:02PM (#28271633)

Below $600 to an individual, the IRS does not care. I have a small sites running Google ads that got me something like $200 last year. When I did my taxes, I couldn't find the 1099, so I wrote Google. Not only is it not legally necessary to send me one, they category refuse to provide the paperwork.

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