Design assignments are killing me

Don’t do it, smart companies doesn’t ask for it.

Don't do them

Ask them, if I can do Whiteboarding round. Maybe you can be a fresher, so I don’t recommend to very choosy with this market conditions. But in 2024, any company which gives assignment round is not worth joining for. But yeah, if you don’t have any choice ignore this advice

Some companies are giving their clients work to do in a week time, and asks figma design link with full access, They will do the hand off and ghost you without giving any feedbacks

What is your yoe?

Yup it’s stupid and waste of time

Assignments are stupid and a waste of time. Sometimes they go as crazy as giving a hour limit for it, which we mostly overshoot to do the best we can. White-boarding is definitely better to understand an applicant’s collaboration and design thinking skills.

+1

And the worst part is they ghost you after submitting the assignment. Not rejection intimation no feedback nothing. All efforts go down the drain.

@corpusx You are getting atleast a response from the company 😅

Same. I ask for whiteboarding if possible - but I already have 4 yoe

Think of it as top movie stars being asked to audition for a particular role.

I’ve similar yoe as you and was part of hitting process at my firm, I asked the same to my leadership as most of the good talent asked for a whiteboarding session. They refused saying there have been few incidents where the candidates have faked their UI or used someone else’s work, so they were adamant on involving UI skills evaluation in the process.

I have 10+ yrs of work ex as a multidisciplinary designer and I won’t do an assignment round unless the company is in a sector I am new to for eg: climate and I want to learn abt the sector through the assignment. Since, design skills are replicable in all the sectors in a similar manner. Get my confidence from recently having worked in AI and public health, education, mental health, livelihood, fintech etc. before that.