That's fine, pay me.
>pair-programming
Again, that's fine, pay me.
>go through an existing project of theirs, discuss it, and extend it together
The SaaS's I own and operate are closed-source and I'm not looking to take on any contractors at this time, but I'll let you know if anything opens up.
The point of offering pair programming is that we invest the same amount of time. You don't spend five hours coding to my five minutes reviewing.
If we're at this stage, then it means you are interested by the company, and the company is interested by you. An interview is not unidirectional, you review the company as much as they review you.
> The SaaS's I own and operate are closed-source and I'm not looking to take on any contractors at this time, but I'll let you know if anything opens up.
That's fine. I interviewed a very junior candidate this afternoon. She went through a coding bootcamp, only has one year of agency work. She didn't feel confident going into a pair programming session blind (which is perfectly understandable, it's not my favourite exercise either).
She however had a bootcamp project she was quite happy with, and that she chose to explain.
You can maybe get in on reputation or network alone, but for every person like you there's two hundred juniors who do not have that luxury, and we're trying to play as much as we can on their strengths.
It even sounds absurd. With this kind of attitude, you'll end up having to do your own roofing. Self-respecting men don't work for free.
For prospective software employees: stop granting hiring managers absurd entitlements - do not work for free. This industry is not special and it needs to stop pretending like it is.
If you come develop for me and do nothing but cry that you can't do a proper slice append in go and you need us to change our stack to elixir because you're used to it, all I get is a fight with HR for 3 months getting a paper trail together to fire you while I pay you $40k.
Not to mention there's a whole sales model of household appliances where they very much come in and demonstrate the value of their vacuum before they sell you on one...
Should I pay you for an hour of your demanded salary? So somewhere in the $100/hr ballpark? Or some nominal fee, the same across all candidates? $100 for the interview?