DizzySushi
DizzySushi

Ghosting after assignments

What's this obsession of startups ghosting after taking assignments from you. It's so irritating and they just can't value your time and efforts

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BouncyDonut
BouncyDonut

Name the company so that people can avoid doing assignments for them

QuirkyWalrus
QuirkyWalrus

I'll share a story according to my last experience:

I interviewed for a startup called "Curie Money". The interviewer seemed quite uninterested but proceeded anyways. There were some red flags from the beginning. They did not discuss the interview process, gave a take home straight away - design implementation of a popular payment app. I completed the take home and was handed another take home which was the implementation of a design from their yet to be released app. This signalled some issues to me. I completed the "most challenging" part of their UI and refused to build the rest of the screen because "it was too easy to test any real skill yet very time consuming". I politely told him that I'd already proved my skills by doing two assignments of challenges they were struggling with in their actual app.

Got ghosted, never heard from the interviewer. Felt like he was using my interview to outsource his dev work.

People say they dodged a bullet, I felt like a dodged a mortar.

DizzySushi
DizzySushi

Similar thing happened with me. Not once, not twice but 4 times🥲🥲

GoofyRaccoon
GoofyRaccoon

There is a company named Edufund they do the same I applied and got the assignment but when I had gone through my friends anyone attempted that two of them did but they ghosted them didn't even acknowledge/reply to the follow up mail don't even attempt that don't waste time

DizzySushi
DizzySushi

Either they have really fucked up hiring process or they lack employees so this is their way of getting work done.

GoofyRaccoon
GoofyRaccoon

Yeah there is a possibility

MagicalQuokka
MagicalQuokka

This is why I mostly decline startup hiring assignments even if the startup doesn't seem to have any bad intentions like getting free work.

DizzySushi
DizzySushi

What is usually their reaction?

GroovyBoba
GroovyBoba

Free work

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