I'd happily do that type of interview as two days of money coming in is still great in its own right when you're unemployed.
Plus it seems like an utterly fair way of evaluating candidates that I don't really feel like trick questions, riddles, and high pressure whiteboard challenges accomplish.
One question/concern I have is: How much paperwork is involved in paying someone for just two days? For example, do you now need to file tax stuff (both state and federal), and how do you physically pay them (e.g. set up bank transfers, cash, etc)?
In an ideal world you'd just have people in for two days and hand them a small wad of cash at the end. But with the laws on the books and complexity of employment in general, something tells me the overhead of such a thing would be problematic.
I think the law is that if it's a contract job and you get paid under something like $500 you don't even need a W2 form (or whichever one it is for that). That might vary state-by-state.
I'd happily do that type of interview as two days of money coming in is still great in its own right when you're unemployed.
Plus it seems like an utterly fair way of evaluating candidates that I don't really feel like trick questions, riddles, and high pressure whiteboard challenges accomplish.
One question/concern I have is: How much paperwork is involved in paying someone for just two days? For example, do you now need to file tax stuff (both state and federal), and how do you physically pay them (e.g. set up bank transfers, cash, etc)?
In an ideal world you'd just have people in for two days and hand them a small wad of cash at the end. But with the laws on the books and complexity of employment in general, something tells me the overhead of such a thing would be problematic.