How many take home interview case studies is too much? Recently had 2 interviews. One for Corp dev director and another for PE portco ops. They all mentioned multiple rounds of take home case studies in which you have a week to several days to complete and present. Is this normal? I don’t have the time or energy to do this crap while doing CDD projects. How do you guys handle this?

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Sounds like an exercise in exploiting free labor but I hope that I’m wrong...

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When there’s blood in the water, sharks will visit and take advantage. These shenanigans echo the unpaid internships that became somewhat commonplace during the post-2008 period.

Opportunists are opportunists, I suppose.

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