Will not pay you for your time or work - Anonymous employee StudioBinder Employee Review

1.0
Oct 22, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

They have a great office in the We Work building in downtown Santa Monica

Cons

They will not compensate you for your time or work in their "trial run" despite promising to do so in writing and word. They will ignore your request for payment after you've dedicated your time and work to their company. It's worse than having interns, they use people looking for jobs in order to get free work disguising it as a "trial run". They pick your brain for strategies and ideas without compensation.

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StudioBinder Response
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This is posted by an individual who was not hired by StudioBinder. Should be posted under "Interview Reviews" vs "Employee Reviews." It's normal for job candidates to interview unpaid or take on trial projects. Re: the Work - As you can imagine, candidates have a limited understanding of our content requirements within minutes of meeting us, and as a result, most of the work provided during their trial run is rather unusable. We couldn't possible scale our content this way; a short look at the frequency of our articles and videos should make this clear. As far as "picking a candidate's brain for strategies," this is a common part most any company's interview process and allows us to evaluate the candidate's understanding of their potential job duties.

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