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What's the things with Toptal ? You need to succeed 3 different technical interviews where one is a one week long project and if you pass all 3, you are not guarantee to have contracts.

I've heard of people not having contracts after succeeding everything.

To me there is no way I will work for one useless algorithm exam, one interview with a Toptal engineer and then one week long project.

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> You need to succeed 3 different technical interviews where one is a one week long project and if you pass all 3, you are not guarantee to have contracts.

Sounds like I might as well be doing regular interviews....

Toptal selection is flawed exactly in the same way many tech hiring processes are: they heavily bias against people who are busy enough not to be able to fit 1-3 weeks long unpaid projects into their schedule. Sure, it weeds out incompetent people, but that's not the same as selecting top people.

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