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Upwork just stole $10k from me

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342 points dustedcodes | 2 comments | 25 Feb 23 10:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.585s | source
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moralestapia ◴[25 Feb 23 11:01 UTC] No.34935666[source]▶
>Provided the documents, went through the visual verification with a webcam, answered the questions, and solved the programming task live, ...

Excuse me, WTF? You have to code something in order to get verified? (!)

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1. geraldwhen ◴[25 Feb 23 11:25 UTC] No.34935783[source]▶
When I did it it was form questions like how to do an SQL join. The questions were not related at all to the work you were trying to do.
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2. lloydatkinson ◴[25 Feb 23 11:53 UTC] No.34935945[source]▶
Fortunately my experience was just me talking about skills I'd listed I had experience with for maybe a minute or less. All on camera while I couldn't see them of course.