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Hey all! Would anyone mind running through some practice cases with me this weekend and next week? I have my final interviews for TD&E at EY next week and unfortunately, I don’t have anyone to help me prepare for the case interview :/ I haven’t done a case in 2 years so I’m a little nervous and want to prepare as much as possible
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Correct I feel like it’s exploitative regardless, but especially as a producer or PM there’s really no “sample” it’ll definitely just be free labor at that point
Yeah no, if they want to “test” you out then a short paid probationary test period is fine for 30-60 days where both parties agree to end the contract if it doesn’t work well with either side.
Besides this is PM’ing totally different as you need to ramp up a bit.
In a market where talent is scarce & candidates have a choice, I don’t see this helping the recruiting process along.
I feel like some of the requests being made for these interviews are really getting out of control. I was once approached by a recruiter about an opportunity and the company in question wanted me to work as a freelancer for an undetermined amount of months before deciding whether to progress to a formal interview process and potentially hire me.It would have been paid at least, but it seemed like an extreme request and would have required me to work clandestinely on the side to my current job. It didn’t feel right to me.
Another time I was asked by a company to outline a highly detailed strategic action plan. I came up with something I was pleased with but was told later that the hiring managers didn’t feel like it was as thorough as they desired.
I can understand how hard it is to judge prospective employees but you need to come up with a task/test/project that is not going to take up an absurd amount of time. I don’t think this thing should take more than one or two hours to complete at most. Come up with something that gives you a sense of how that person thinks or works and move on with it. Enough with these crazy requests from people who already have jobs, lives and families.
I literally had an interview like this and it made me sick. They wanted a whole strategy plan and everything for a social media campaign
They asked me to put together an entire client proposal for a “hypothetical” client - instead I gave a presentation with all the information - and when they asked for a copy I sent them a redacted version. Said they can have the original file with a job offer or a paid invoice - they gave me the job (31,f)
Glad you got the job. Wish you could bill the hypothetical client for the time spent. Thank you for your input. I am hearing more interview stories where potential candidates have assignments. I mostly see it as free work and a chance to soak up a lot of info from a pool of people, but there is an argument that the effort and cost to do the assignment is non billable like a New Business pitch. No one to bill, a lot of effort put in with hopes of being the last agency standing, but you might get that “we decided to go another direction” song.
Not to mention they actually wanted you to design assets based on one of three of their current clients
That sounds terrible. Did they ask you in the interview for results turned in later?