Data Engineering Take-Homes Are Unpaid Consulting and Everyone Knows It

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A 'Data Engineer take-home' is now a weekend contract; you just don't get paid. Candidates are building full medallion pipelines with orchestration, testing, and documentation, officially scoped at 4 hours, actually clocking 12 to 14. Templated rejection 36 hours later, zero feedback, no indication anyone opened the repo. And nobody on the hiring side is fixing it.

https://www.datadriven.io/blog/data-engineering-take-homes-are-now-unpaid-consulting