Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Josh Priollaud
How to Handle a Request for an Unpaid Take-Home Assignment (With an Email Template)
Got an unpaid take-home assignment? Why you shouldn't do it for free, how to ask the company to pay for it, and a ready-to-send reply that points them to tools that handle the payment.
Friday, September 18, 2026
Josh Priollaud
Unpaid take-home assignments: are they exploitative? A fair look at both sides
Thousands of posts call unpaid take-homes exploitative. Some of that anger is earned and some is not. What the law actually says, where an assessment turns into free labor, and what a fair honorarium looks like.
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Josh Priollaud
Using Pudding as a candidate
We built this platform to make the assessment experience better, fairer, and a lot less stressful.