How unscrupulous companies are taking advantage of the downturn in the tech and media sectors

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
2 min readFeb 25, 2024

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An article in Wired, “Tech job interviews are out of control”, confirms an unpleasant trend my own students have been telling me about for some time: some unscrupulous companies are turning job interviews into an opportunity to get candidates to provide valuable work for free.

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)