Since the beginning of this year I have faced a new (for me) situation. Before considering a candidate for a web programmer’s position, very often they began to demand that the test task be performed remotely.
Tasks were different, some I did in 2 hours, some in 2 days. After completing the assignment, contact with the employer was terminated.
This year I completed 4 such tasks, for which nobody even said “thank you”. After that, I realized that no one took me to work and was not going to. Simply, there are people who are small people who receive working scripts for free and use them in their projects.
Now, when I am asked to perform a test task, I ask you to tell about the company, where it is located, what it does, please send links to the company's projects. After that, the "employer" stops communicating.