The programmer received an offer to work on an unpaid project. The IT worker has a full-time job and his own pet projects, but decided to share the "interesting" offer in X. The employer highlighted some of the advantages of such cooperation, which the IT workers began to discuss vigorously, as well as share whether they would agree to such conditions.
The programmer received an offer to work on an unpaid project. The IT worker has a full-time job and his own pet projects, but decided to share the "interesting" offer in X. The employer highlighted some of the advantages of such cooperation, which the IT workers began to discuss vigorously, as well as share whether they would agree to such conditions.
User X under the nickname "Sashko Magistr", who works as a programmer but wants to change jobs, shared a screenshot of the offer he recently received. The employer emphasized that the project is unpaid, but participation in it for beginners has some advantages, for example, you can write about it on LinkedIn and your resume. In addition, among the advantages were highlighted:
"You won't believe it, but in times when they don't want to hire without work experience, this is exactly the experience. But overall, the situation is ridiculous, because many people paid for courses to then go to unpaid work," commented Dima Ch.'s post.
" After working on such a project, I received an offer for the position of a middle manager , I had no commercial experience before," shared another user.
"For educated people, of course, it looks funny. But if you imagine such a job from another perspective, like free courses and experience, it doesn't look so bad. Especially considering that it was difficult to find a job without experience before, and few people recruited trainees," noted a user under the nickname Arravell.
"I wonder what kind of project this is where people come in just to 'gain experience'? What can be the quality of the product if a person came in for nothing to put an item on their resume and then dump it six months later," another user noted.
Continuing the previous thought, a comment from an experienced IT specialist: "It would be cool if your colleagues also worked for free for the sake of experience. That would be interesting."
“The question is what quality of experience will be gained in such a ‘commercial environment,’” commented another user.
"It's strange, on the one hand - it's like he's "burning" from such an offer. On the other hand: the person immediately, in the first sentence, clearly indicated the conditions, and did not postpone it to the last stage of the interview. For example, I want to get acquainted with QA. I thought I would agree to such an internship for a few weeks ," wrote a man under the nickname Boris Diadus.
" Just the other day, I hired Jun, it was his first job after the courses, 650 bucks a month. I used to work for 300. So keep looking, it's just a matter of time," another reader noted.
"This was the reality for QA 2 years ago, I was also looking for a pet project to record my experience. By the way, this is the reality for Juns now in the American market," the IT professional shared.
Although the programmer hid the name of the company in the screenshot, he noted in the comments to the post that it is on the DOU platform. In general, opinions in the comments were divided, with some writing that it is worth agreeing for the sake of experience. Others are against it and believe that this is slavery, where you can hardly get a good experience.
