Every month in the 'Who is hiring?' posts, DuckDuckGo consistently lists job openings. When you go to their hiring page it looks very interesting. You get paid on their "Test" projects. I am not sure if those "Test" projects are live actual requirements that they make applicants do, then they will eventually not hire. OR these job postings are just to maintain their visibility creating the impression of ongoing expansion without all positions necessarily being filled.
Thanks for your interest in our roles and the questions you’ve raised here. Here’s a quick answer:
— Test projects: these are not live requirements that we get people to work on. We create these test projects as a way to assess people’s skills and how well they fit with what we need for the role. We like to pay people for these as we recognize that not everyone will be successful in the process, but we still want to compensate them for their time in some way.
—ongoing job openings: we only post job openings for roles that we’re actually hiring for at the time. We often post a single job opening for a role where we’d like to hire several people. So they can sometimes stay open for quite some time!
—LinkedIn openings vs our career page: we post every live role we have on our own careers page, but only some of them on LinkedIn, so there can often be a difference between the live roles on both sites.
Nice! I'm drowning in a sea of backlogs and this is the first thing I saw this morning. Totally worth it! Only thing I can feedback is to add a jump action using spacebar. Overall, it is awesome!
