Is it ok to give assignment as a recruitment process? Sometimes I feel it as a Fraud. Mainly companies with almost no presence on Internal.   I received interview invitation from Nigeria based comp...

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Is it ok to give assignment as a recruitment process? Sometimes I feel it as a Fraud. Mainly companies with almost no presence on Internal. 

I received interview invitation from Nigeria based company. After first round they handed me an assignment of full stack project. Completing that assignment will take at-least 2 days and that company doesn’t have any presence on Internet. 

Should I submit the assignment?

Assignment as Interview Process

Software Developer

Assignment as Interview Process- Grapevine

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Hi 
Wanted an opinion on how do you all tackle the assignment bit when it comes to assignments as part of hiring processes. One, how regular or normal is it at senior positions ? And two, I feel that a lot of times they just ask you to do everything that is expected of the job. Eg: Create a marketing strategy after analyzing landscape and top 3 competitors. Add graphs etc.
I always have a concern of getting most out of you. Since its at round 1 they would be getting multiple such assignments, which means by design lpt of this work will be a waste and lots of inputs freely sourced.
How do you all handle it ? Can you push back ?
P.S: Am from business/ marketing aide of things and not sure of how it works for techies/ product.

Assignments as a part of interview process

Brand Marketing Manager

Quick rant: Why do I have to submit a 10 slider with 3 rounds of interviews for a company I had never heard about 5 days ago?

This is my first attempt at switching jobs and it's so freaking painful. Is something like an assignment necessary? 

P.S - I'm NOT interviewing for a tech role where you might have to showcase coding skills

Assignments in a job process

Consultant

Hey guys.

While I know that there is this ridiculous practice of getting candidates who are applying for upper middle to top management roles to do an assignment, has anyone who has done that experienced 'being taken advantage of'.

The reason I am asking is cause I have done a couple of them (putting in decent effort and feeling quite confident) and got no calls in return. What makes it even more shady is that I don't get feedback even after asking for it a couple of times. There was once when I saw the same inputs that I gave being put in practice which infuriated me.

Any inputs?

Assignment for interviews

Project Manager

how much money shall I ask them for this "assignment" ?

Domain: IT Project Management
Description/Problem Statement:
- Build a web app for managing tasks on various client projects 
- The app will have 3 types of user logins - Admin->Manager->developer
- The admin can create a Manager account/developer account
- Admins can create projects and can assign one manager and multiple developers to each project
- Managers can create tasks inside a project and can assign them to developers
- Each task will have a current status of either TODO/IN PROGRESS/DONE
- By default, each task will have a TODO status
- Developers can update the status of each task assigned to them
- A Kanban board should be maintained for each project
- Every user should be able to see only those projects to which they have access.

Technical Specification:
- Use ReactJS to build the frontend, NodeJS for backend & MySQL as a database
- Use Tailwind CSS framework for Styling
- Implement user registration and login functionality. Utilize JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for token-based authentication.
- Introduce Roles in the System (Admin, Manager & Developer) & implement Role-based Authorization.
- Implement a search endpoint that allows users to search for tasks based on keywords, tags, or any other relevant criteria.
- Integrate email notifications for important task events (e.g., task assignment, completion).

A company asked me to build this project as an Interview Assignment 🤦‍♂️

Senior Software Engineer

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Hello people,
We are building a recruitment platform to make hiring easy and fun. Having worked with a recruitment startup, we weren't able to hire for our own team. Hire first, fire faster mode ON tha humara.

So, we found this gap mostly in the early stage startups who don't invest in their recruitment properly.

So can you guys please share your experiences with landing a job with early stage startups.

Rant about recruitment in startups

Generalist

The amount of pride in this post (https://shorturl.at/nopPW) almost baffles me, how is it okay to ask someone to spend their time on a 'pre-interview' assignment? What if the candidate doesn't fit the budget, or the notice period is a bit too much etc. Imagine going through so much only to be laid off because "sorry we hired like crazy and need to do cost-cutting now"

Interview or Harassment @ Meesho

Founder’s Office

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Folks, I was in talks with a company for a role and they sent this assignment. I thought a lot and declined doing it because I found it to be abhorrently long and painful to complete. 

Did I do the right thing or should I have considered doing it? I don't want to think that I acted as smartass. 

I changed the name to maintain anonymity.

Looking for a job but said no to an assignment

Product Marketing Manager

I am a '21 graduate from a Tier 1 college (old IIT) and have had short stints as product manager at a couple of startups. About a year back, I decided to startup but after a few months, realized that startup idea wasn't worth pursuing. 

Researched around a few startup ideas and finally landed upon a good one in D2C space. But the problem is financing. I don't have much saving and friends / family network wouldn't be able to finance this. I really want to pursue this idea but finance is becoming a hindrance. 

So started looking for job opportunities about 3 months back. I have been exploring work opportunities in product / founder office / EIR roles or other generalist role. 

Job hunt process has been frustrating to say the least. Getting very few calls. In most cases, people are ghosting after couple of rounds of interview or assignment. In some cases, after getting through 2-3 rounds, I got to know that opening has been closed temporarily. Most HRs don't even have the decency to give feedback. 

I don't intend to work in job for long anyway. As soon as I have the job, I plan to start working on my business idea and quit as soon as I have enough financial leeway. 

How should I go about job hunt process? I have been trying to connect with folks on LinkedIn in whose company job openings are there. Apart from this, I have been connecting with founders from recently funded startups. Naukri / Instahyre and IIM Jobs are other portals I have been looking on. Anything I should do differently here? 

Looking forward to hearing your suggestions / experience.

How bad is the job market?

Just a advice: 
  
 Never do the assignment for any company.This company will ghost you every time after the assignment or will offer lower pay / lower position. 
  
 Companies just try to get ideas via the assignment

Product Manager

I recently applied to Indian Fintech, first round went well. Got no response from HR for 3-4 days. Once I called her on 5th day, she told me that I had cleared first round and they will assignment next day. Assignment didn’t arrive for 2 more days. HR stopped picking my calls. After this I reached out to third party recruiter (who started the process initially). She contacted this company HR and they sent me assignment next day. 

I had to complete it in 48 hour strict timeline. Spent entire 2 days on it and barely slept. I submitted it on time. 

After this no reply from HR for 4 days. Finally I reached out to my interviewer from first round for help. He said he will remind HR. 

Next day I got call from HR that all open positions are closed and we will consider u in future. No feedback on assignment was given. Not even sorry for making u wait. 

Isn’t the only thing HRs need to be good at is people handling & professional communication?

What’s the worst interview process experience you had so far?

Product Designer

Founder tries to take advantage of software intern. Intern fights back. 🥊

Ninja technique to get your work items done without paying people to get them done. 
 Also, making people work for you to give them the opportunity to work for you.

Software Engineer

I hate assignments. I hated them while applying for jobs, and I hate giving them while trying to hire someone.

It's basically free work with no guarantee of employment. It's unfair to make people work so much, often people assign 2-3 days worth of work for such interviews.

Is there any other practical alternative though? I would love to know everyone's thoughts on this

Is there a way to hire people without multiple assignments?

Product Owner

Why does everyyyy company wants us to do their assignments, like WTF is my portfolio not enough of a proof of work for you? I worked my ass of on my portfolio. I apply to tons of company at the same time so if every company starts to give their assignment we will focking die with a mental illness

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