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or they are just trying to get a lot of work done for free. Pick a dozen developers, have each work the 10 hours, hard work too, since the people would be working their ass off trying to make a good impression....then tell them "Sorry you didn't live up to our standards".

Not likely though, since then they'd offer to pay more than the minimum wage

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I also thought, that these small "test" assignments might be a trick to get (some part of) the work for free.

In ten hours for free plus ten hours at five per cent, times the number of eager programmers, you can get a lot of footwork done.

> Not likely though, since then they'd offer to pay more than the minimum wage

The minimum wage could be helpful to get applications only from a certain type of programmers: Those who don't mind a low salary and care more about the Lisp experience and learning new things. I myself would probably like to have that kind of people on my team.

If anyone here takes the job, please let us know how it goes. ;-)

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