Cisco's old model (which worked very well for them) was to develop an outside startup and see if they gain traction while keeping at least some financial/control stake to democratize the risk and spend and then spin-in if it is succesful (or sell off).

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Our_Benefactors 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I interviewed with Cisco once. They wanted me to do a take home interview. Implement an api, make a web app, host the GitHub repo somewhere, host the web app so it was publicly available for them to test, make sure I included full documentation and test suite. A fully tested and deployed full stack application, from scratch, as a “take home test”. I said “no, I don't work for free”.

That was by far the most egregious example I’ve encountered of “we are trying to get unpaid labor from our interview process.”

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chuckadams 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I think it's reasonable if one's applying as a full-stack developer, the app is something like a simple TODO list that isn't anything they'd actually use, and there isn't a high expectation of polish. Few hours of work at most, not days, and definitely not a first-interview thing. Expecting you to host it yourself is definitely unreasonable: they can build and run it themselves if they care that much, but eyeballing the source ought to be good enough in most cases.

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		It's only ok if they pay you for your time.
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FuriouslyAdrift 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, that's ridiculous. It's not just FAANGs that pull this crap.

	▲	lawlessone 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		FAANGS often start it and then everyone else thinks it's going to make their company great if they do it too.

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stuff4ben 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ah good ole MPLS (Mario, Prem, Luca, and I can't remember who was S)...

	▲	lima 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Soni

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themafia 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Sounds like something an equity or financial firm should do. I'm not sure why a networking company decided to make that their core competency.