Beware talent competitions, talent searches, desperate managers looking for "talent".
To show you how far they will go, I wrote a new app for a group. They were taking credit for writing it. To keep me happy they were having me do demos to supposed "sales people". Really the "sales people" were my old manager (lowering his voice) and a couple of his thugs. Enlisted the help of a marketing manager to set up the fake meetings.
I believe their intention was to let me continue doing the work on the application by myself, have me do fake demos to people pretending to be sales people, so I would think someone had seen me, then give the credit to the new manager's incompetent "yes-men".
Sick bunch of people, sick place to work. Anything to reward the loyal incompetents working for the management.
Anything to screw over the people doing the work.