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Alin Pisica

I think it was a startup... Or planned to become one, not sure. I am invited to the interview, go to the other side of the town and everything happened in a 2 room apartment. When I entered the building I said "Ok, they are barely beginning, no big team, a 2 room apt works". I took the interview in the kitchen, while his wife was cooking dinner. I was expected to work in the living room, to a desk close to his and his 2 friends of him. I was thinking that the apt was work only but no, they were living there. I was not bothered about this, if everything worked well and the people would be nice working in an apartment with the people that live in it would not be a problem. The problems started during the interview, when I was asked not about my previous incomes, but I was asked about every project I worked on in the past, at every company, in great details. After the interview finished (an interview in which he barely knew how to properly formulate a question or answer my questions about the "company") he asked me if I want to work pro-bono for at least 3 months, after 3 being the moment when he would come with a salary proposal. Never heard from them again. I hope they are good.