I joined an onboarding Zoom call with an AI bro who had no idea how he was supposed to check my technical ability, still ended up inside two Slacks where I was assigned some tasks.
One had 70,000 people in it, and it was quickly obvious we were disposable, with many people complaining about not getting paid, so I never started any of the assignments (basically, was supposed to record myself solving a specialized task... but didn't feel like breaking the IP rules from my employer, nor had any time recently to work on something unrelated at night or over the weekend).
The other one was much more selective (I guess only tenure(track) PhD's), but the highly specialized task I was assigned came on very short notice while I was away with the family on the weekend, with expected delivery two days after. The list of problems they were trying to get us to solve are holygraal problems in physics.
Yeah, the potential pay was too good to ignore.
I joined an onboarding Zoom call with an AI bro who had no idea how he was supposed to check my technical ability, still ended up inside two Slacks where I was assigned some tasks.
One had 70,000 people in it, and it was quickly obvious we were disposable, with many people complaining about not getting paid, so I never started any of the assignments (basically, was supposed to record myself solving a specialized task... but didn't feel like breaking the IP rules from my employer, nor had any time recently to work on something unrelated at night or over the weekend).
The other one was much more selective (I guess only tenure(track) PhD's), but the highly specialized task I was assigned came on very short notice while I was away with the family on the weekend, with expected delivery two days after. The list of problems they were trying to get us to solve are holygraal problems in physics.