I am very much opposed to giving job candidates assignments in order to consider them for a position. But at the same time, I have been burned by hiring someone who flat out lied about their skill set (they had their significant other doing the work for them for months after getting hired). Have you ever encountered a fair hiring practice that allowed you to prove you could actually do something you listed on your resume as a skill?

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I agree with you that requiring people to essentially work for free to get a job just feels unethical. We've done it, but we've compensated people, it's a token payment but it's an ethical gesture. Whenever there is some doubt about someone's capability, it's best to get actual examples of someone's work, and a reference to establish that it is their work. But to some extent it's just inevitable that you are gambling on someone when you hire them.

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We have a standard test that we ask candidates to do, gut I’m not a fan of making people do assignments. I’m not in the business of trying to get free work out of people. It’s a practice that should be stopped overall and I’ve ended interview processes because of it.

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