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> the service is only good if Fanng/Fortune500 employees signup

Make it a paid service. It's the only way it will work. People may be willing to spend a few minutes of their weekend or evening to help when it's a front-page post on HackerNews, but nobody will voluntarily waste their free time helping strangers at an industrial scale on what will end up being 99% stupid issues.

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I would be very surprised if FAANGs permit their employees to moonlight like this.

I work for a FAANG and it's a violation of company policy for me to profit from privileges associated with my employment.

That's why I was wondering whether the service would be legal. Thanks

Company policies aren't laws. Employees could be fired over it, but some would definitely take the risk, as they already do with providing mock interview services, moonlighting without receiving formal authorization, having 2 jobs, etc.

Of course it would be forbidden, the same way it's forbidden to sell mock interview services, yet they florish.

Makes sense

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