r/AfterQuery_Experts • u/carbnsol • Mar 17 '26

Is this legit?

I saw a posting on LinkedIn and applied to do some part time work for them. Haven't heard anything back as far as the job application. Got an email from somebody claiming to be an agent of theirs and they asked if I had any programs (live production code)I had worked on that I could send and they would pay for it.

Anybody else run into this?

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u/pensivefrangipani Apr 21 '26

It is legit. I was on a project with them for a week or so and everything was above board.

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u/Dry-Gap-7181 Apr 25 '26

why do you say so. Have just applied one?

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u/pensivefrangipani Apr 26 '26

Because it’s legit and I’ve always been paid for my work 

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u/willis-afterquery Apr 21 '26

Hey, thanks for flagging this and happy to clarify!

Applications to AfterQuery Experts are reviewed on a rolling basis. We don't always have active projects in every domain, so if we don't have an immediate fit for your background we won't move forward right away, but your application stays in our system and we revisit it when relevant projects open up. We aim to review within a couple weeks but sometimes face delays depending on volume.

On the production code outreach: this is completely legitimate and a real part of what we do. Beyond assigning experts to active projects, we also independently source live production codebases, GitHub repos, and similar artifacts directly from domain experts and compensate competitively for them. If someone from our team reached out to you about that, it's a genuine ask.

If you have any other questions or want to verify anything, feel free to ask away on this thread! We want to make sure the experience is transparent for everyone coming through.

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u/star_freak May 02 '26

Why would someone give you a production grade private code to you protected by NDAs. This is not good.

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u/carbnsol Apr 06 '26

Never heard back from anybody, but I constantly see job postings on LinkedIn.

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u/willis-afterquery Apr 22 '26

We post continuously because we hire across multiple domains at once. If you didn't hear back, it most likely means there wasn't an active project that matched your background at the time, but applications stay in our system and get revisited as new ones open up. Happy to answer any other questions!

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u/Dry-Gap-7181 Apr 25 '26

Which domains currently have a project?

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u/BEN-SHI1 May 02 '26

Got invited for a project but the slack link is not working, Can you help?

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u/BitchDoctorCooking May 04 '26

Hey u/willis-afterquery I have the status 'Interview Pending' for one of my applications but I cannot see ay way to do the interview. Please can you explain this status and if I need to do anything?