also CEO of Revolut: "Why aren’t you working on weekends?" https://twitter.com/phillipcaudell/status/110108122935141580...
Why would you ever put up with something like this? I would laugh at the recruiter or manager if I was asked to do something like this. It’s akin to that door to door knife company that takes advantage of college kids.
There was a wired article in the twitter link you provided.
>She did a 30-minute job interview over Google Hangouts with the London-based head of business development, Andrius Biceika, and was immediately told she had passed to the next round, which would involve a small test. “The surprise came when I received the task and it asked me to get the company as many clients as possible, with each one depositing €10 into the app,” says Laura.
The instructions on the exercise said the applicants should recruit at least 200 clients in a week to have a chance at passing to the next interview phase. The task’s description didn’t guarantee that reaching the target would automatically qualify applicants for a job, but did advise them on a number of ways they could get clients, such as sharing a “promo code” with their friends, sharing it on social media, and posting promotional flyers on university campuses.
After Laura wrote back refusing to do the task and saying she was disappointed that the company would “take advantage of someone that is looking for a job”, Biceika emailed her saying she was the only candidate out of over 350 that had complained about the task. “Apologies you're not up to show what you're capable of,” he wrote in the email.
This isn't strictly true.
The Working Time Directive provides you the right to work no more than 48 hours a week.
It is possible in the UK to opt out of the Working Time Directive, but it is not mandatory. You cannot be forced to do so.
So whilst a UK company can legally add a clause that says "you agree to work overtime without any pay", they cannot force you to work that overtime unless you have agreed to opt-out. A company that doesn't hire you because you refuse to opt-out is breaking the law.
Unless the company does something bafflingly stupid, though, there's likely no way to prove that's what happened.
I'm nearly certain you are wrong on this point. A company definitely cannot fire you or mistreat you for not agreeing to the clause, but there's literally nothing in that page that you sent that would say it's illegal to not hire somebody just because they don't agree to the opt out.
It sounds like Laura showed what's she's capable of: standing up to abusive employers. It's a shame she was the only one.
For a sufficient amount of money I would do it. But it would be a LOT.
Or even worse: sometimes that doesn't happen at all.
Whatever the causes might be, one big effect is that HR usually gets to spin stories about turnover and recruiting to create perceptions such as
- nobody could possibly have done anything to prevent a critical employee from leaving
- despite some critical person leaving, nobody did anything wrong and if they hired the same person again they should handle everything the same way.
- there are just not enough candidates (to disguise the real issue that compensation and benefits are not competitive)
- the employee we need has to be open-minded, but we’re only seeing dogmatic people in the pipeline and/or the ubiquitous “not a good culture fit” feedback, to disguise the problem that the company itself is dogmatic and closed-minded, and candidates react to perceived dogmatic culture by turning down interviews or offers.
And many more.
In other words, HR will spin the situation to say that no productivity is lost to turnover, that nothing could have been done to maintain that productivity, and that whatever happens is never due to misaligned compensation or management failures, it’s just an unchangeable cost of doing business.
I guess Glassdoor is as close as it gets now, together with leaks on Twitter posted by the parent.
One of the problems with Glassdoor is availability bias - it selects in the people who have been around at companies like this for a while and/or thrive in this kind of culture and selects out people who take one look at a company culture like this and leave within a week.
[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/revolut-trade-unions-labour-...
Wow, disgusting.
I also completely lost any trust that this company can safely deal with my money and private data securely.
Absolutely disgusting.
Even so, can you really claim that they are not pushed towards nearly impossible goals? It's very common to not reach a goal for a gazillion of reasons, forcing people to work weekends while you yourself get all the money from it is being an asshat.