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One of my friends interviewed with Vice and they asked her to submit a reel (standard) but also pitches for 6 new episodes of a show. One of them was produced within weeks of her interview in which she didn’t get an offer
Same thing happened to me with another in house gig. Asked me to do a take home assignment over the course of 24 hours that should “only take 1-2 hours”.
The ask: what’s your vision for the department and strategy for the upcoming year.
I wouldn't give them a single idea without a payment agreement. Such bs.
It is the new recruitment pitch for businesses who have zero idea what they’re doing or how to weed through candidates to hire. Let this be a sign of what to expect if you work there.
I’d send their CD’s email address to a Nigerian prince .
Isn’t this infringement of intellectual property if they’re not paying you?
Shiiiit. They better have asked your hourly rate right after giving you that brief.
Send them a presentation that’s just pictures of your ass with directions on where to put their lips.
Then you have to choose a font, lay it out, color balance the image of the ass... it’s still free work.
You could ask them to pay you without doing any work because that would be the role reversal premise
That happened to me when I was a finalist for a producer position on This American Life. I didn’t get it but they used one of my ideas without credit
Buzzfeed asked the same of me.
(I declined to do it and it ended there).
My partner just had the same situation but was supposed to concept 2-3 video campaigns. So fucked.
Briefed on Friday to work the weekend for free? Tell them you know why their name is Bumble.
I worked in-house at a big retail company. The “copy test" was actually an e-mail assignment for their seasonal best-seller. It took 4 hours, and if it had taken any longer, I would’ve billed them for it. Anyway, I walked in first day and my favorite headline was already in use, art directed and tacked to the wall. SMH.
I wouldn’t mess with Bumble anyways. Their “head of creative” is Erin Foster, aka David Foster’s daughter. She’s friends with celebs and Whitney Wolfe the CEO. Such bs to be just given that title when there are actual creatives who know what the hell they’re doing.
JFC I just noticed her sister, Sara, is also the head of creative. Such a joke!!
My last two jobs at major companies I was required to do this in the interview process and given two or three days . Both scenarios were for fake companies. If the job consists of you having to turn around quick work then this makes sense, but the scenarios should be fake so you know they aren’t just stealing your work.
Wait, is anyone getting paid for this??
Yeah, don’t do that. Happened to a friend of a friend who (rightly) called them out for asking for free ideas
Multiple tech companies I interviewed with have mandatory take home design tests. None of them offered compensation. It's an awful trend in the industry. I'm concerned more employers are going to adopt it.