Followed up with them. No response. Nothing for a week. Then suddenly I get an email that they merged my code and they forgot that I had access to the repo. I could see that they were selectively merging canadates code into their own system. When I asked them with a followup if they had any questions on the code, no response and suddenly I had no access on the git side.

Yeah they were crowd sourcing an app. I just did a bunch of free work. Never again. Nowadays I just reject jobs that require any coding outside an interview. It's a two way street, it's not worth giving people free work.

[–] redxef@feddit.org 39 points 1 day ago

Did you waive your rights to the code anywhere? If not then it's still your code and they used it without obtaining the rights to using it - depending on your jurisdiction ofc.

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could you go to your Ministry of Labour about this?

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

*Laughs in American*

*sobs in americsn*

Why are we so backwards?

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I once had a company give me an assignment that sounded very much like what you are describing. They said I should allocate 10h at once to implement a real-life task that they had and that their developers "already solved".

At that point I only wrote a handful messages with their recruiter and hadn't even spoken to a human there. I didn't even know anything about the team, my potential boss or the project at that time.

I didn't even answer back, just ghosted them. I'm not going to spend multiple hundreds of Euros of my time just for some assignent to maybe qualify for an interview.

[–] ratel@mander.xyz 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That legit sounds like the most inefficient way to build an app wtf.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 20 hours ago

Vibe coding without Cursor