Interviewing a Hundred People

I am a new grad with MS and am looking for jobs in computer vision domain. A company (early stage startup) has asked me to train a network and also annotate 100 images (with 20 key points in each image) and see if how fine tuning on this helps I feel uncomfortable about the annotation and it feels like exploitation. Can anyone share if this is common or how to respond to this? edit - By exploitation I mean my time is being wasted for no purposeful reason imo. Yes, it is part of the job, but I can't see the value of it in the hiring process. Man, they just need to "interview" a hundred or so people and they'll finish their main product. Nice passive aggressive active learning

A Reddit-style discussion shows a new computer vision graduate being asked by an early-stage startup to train a network and annotate 100 images during the hiring process. The commenter jokes that the company is disguising unpaid product development as an interview, suggesting the startup needs a hundred candidates to complete its product. It is used as a sarcastic reaction to exploitative hiring assignments and companies asking applicants to do excessive free work.

• @ithueti / 3651 2021-02-02