> Hi, I’d like to work for your company
> Great, state your price and availability
If match:
> create a simple project(<1 hour of work) that demonstrates familiarity with technologies that will be used on the job.
If done, check for team fit.
Unless they are paying for the 1 hour of work then yes.
If the company wants to know if someone can do something then look at their github or bring them in for an interview.
Do not do work for free.
The take home assignment is to create a web service that changes the color of a cube, hardly anything cutting edge. Do you expect to be paid for coding interviews too?
Personally, I don't mind burning some time to interview for free. But I expect the company to also burn the time of their own engineers as well. It displays a degree of commitment and seriousness from them about this meeting. I'm never going to let them yank my chain and dance for them when all they've done is send an email. But I'm also not desperate for work, so it's a good filter for me to know what kinda dogshit work culture you've got.
This is toxic to you???