• fckreddit@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Having a job sucks. Not having a job, and constantly being ignored or rejected does a number on my mental health too.

    A company I applied for gave me a take home assignment, I said that I would only do it if they pay me. They said they would pay me. The project took me about 2.5 months. Now they have rejected me saying it is not good enough, didn’t pay me for the work I have done. It has been an all-around hell week for me. I hate being taken advantage of like that. Fuck whatever enables people or companies like this.

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      9 months ago

      Two and a half months is insane for a practical skills demonstration for a job interview. Those should be a couple of hours at most.

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        9 months ago

        Perhaps the biggest joke was why they rejected me. Apparently I only used “basic concepts of object oriented programming.” I found that to be the best because using anything more advanced might diffuse the logic too much, something I didn’t like. But, no, they probably think I should use everything in “Clean Code” because they probably worship that book.