From a job seeker point of view, there are also lots of job posters that are scams or that want to receive free or almost free work.
Some are just trying to steal applicant’s money or identity, but I’ve also seen legitimate companies asking for long test tasks and disappear afterwards and employees from high profile organizations trying to outsource part of their work but paying $6/hour. Upwork is broken, but this also happens on angel.co and probably on other digital job markets.
Interestingly, most of the advice given in the article for not getting scammed is also true for job seekers.
Some are just trying to steal applicant’s money or identity, but I’ve also seen legitimate companies asking for long test tasks and disappear afterwards and employees from high profile organizations trying to outsource part of their work but paying $6/hour. Upwork is broken, but this also happens on angel.co and probably on other digital job markets.
Interestingly, most of the advice given in the article for not getting scammed is also true for job seekers.