I’m early-ish in the application pipeline for a non-EA job and they’re asking me to do a 20-HOUR UNPAID work test where they explicitly want to own and use the product of my “work test” ….
besides this obviously being really cringey and maybe illegal (?) it was a good reminder for me of how unpaid work tests are just a massive hinderance to potential applicants—who the heck has 20 hours of unpaid work to donate unless they’re unemployed?
I’m early-ish in the application pipeline for a non-EA job and they’re asking me to do a 20-HOUR UNPAID work test where they explicitly want to own and use the product of my “work test” ….
besides this obviously being really cringey and maybe illegal (?) it was a good reminder for me of how unpaid work tests are just a massive hinderance to potential applicants—who the heck has 20 hours of unpaid work to donate unless they’re unemployed?