This also happens when you don't have a decade of experience.
I had a whiteboard interview (which are never fun) but did reasonably well. The owner sent me home with homework:
Implement a fully Ajaxified Frontpage 2003 clone web app.
I would regularly see this company posting ads on boards for all sorts of positions. When I showed up it was a dev house of 4 people including the owner and his wife as receptionist. Sometimes people aren't hiring, they're just looking for free work.
I had a whiteboard interview (which are never fun) but did reasonably well. The owner sent me home with homework:
Implement a fully Ajaxified Frontpage 2003 clone web app.
I would regularly see this company posting ads on boards for all sorts of positions. When I showed up it was a dev house of 4 people including the owner and his wife as receptionist. Sometimes people aren't hiring, they're just looking for free work.