hottestBee
hottestBee

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

15mo ago
stupidusername
stupidusername

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

GrimBeard75
GrimBeard75

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.

hottestBee
hottestBee

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

TightMambo74
TightMambo74
Amazon15mo

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

hottestBee
hottestBee

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

TightMambo74
TightMambo74
Amazon15mo

Yeah there is a possibility

AITookMyJob
AITookMyJob

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.

hottestBee
hottestBee

What is usually their reaction?

Elon_Musk
Elon_Musk
X.com15mo

Free work

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