Hi channel, wanted to highlight an issue that seems to be prevalent amongst companies during the interview process: I introduced a friend to this group about a month ago, she's a full-stack developer with over 3 years experience. After she had introduced herself in the #intro thread, couple of people reached out to her asking if she was interested to work at their organization. One of those companies was uprise.co (and I can't seem to recall the other one). At uprise.co, essentially she experienced as what can only be described as an extremely biased and unfair, dirty, unethical hiring practice. To provide a gist, here is what happened: • They mutually agreed on salary expectations in the beginning. • Then proceeded with technical rounds, later gave a take-home assignment that was about a week's worth of effort. The assignment itself consisted of building a full-stack web application (React/Redux, Firebase, Node/Express, TypeScript), and one of the requirements was to use the company's branding/logo and UI components in the code. She had to submit a pull request to their repository on Bitbucket after completing the assignment. (Personally these practices look very fishy to me, almost sounds like they're getting free work done. But I'll still give them benefit-of-doubt). • She clears all the technical rounds (in-fact they repeatedly mentioned that they were really happy with her tech skills). The CEO round also is done finally and seems to be happy. • However, finally she receives an email asking to submit her past payslips (from an organization that she used to work with 2 years ago!) another RED flag! She nevertheless reluctantly had to provide that information. • Then she receives an email from CEO saying that since they couldn't verify her payslip therefore they won't be extending an offer. (Now this is a dirty tactic that I've seen many employers use, when they feel that a candidate is somewhat in a grim situation. And given that it's COVID, who isn't!). It's pretty obvious what followed next.... • When she replied asking why they needed her previous payslip, and whether there was any concerns about her during the interview - the CEO tactfully avoids answering those questions, but instead says that they are ready to extend an offer because she would make a very valuable addition to the engineering team, but guess what? He slashed the salary (that they had previously agreed upon in the beginning) by MORE THAN HALF! I can tell you this much - their slashed revised offer was comparable to a college graduate salary.