Why does Assembla.com offer work trials?
Work trials are a form of working interviews, but adapted to suit the work model of a remote team. Assembla believes that a working trial is the most relevant, productive, and efficient way of determining long term success in a development relationship. Most Assembla jobs will forego a lengthy interview and review process in favor a paid trial. Here is how trials generally work: • Trials generally last for 2 weeks (sometimes up to 4) and focus on your ability as a developer to handle coding and design tasks in a distributed and agile environment. • All trials are PAID trials. We discourage developers from offering to work for free work during a trial. If you are working, you should be paid. Trials are also paid at the requested or agreed upon rate; discounts during trials are similarly discouraged. • Trial tasks (and the billable trial period) begins with work that you do, including setting up a development environment, researching methodologies, reviewing code and structure, etc. Once
