I recently spent about 3 hours working on an assignment for a potential job, not sure how to feel about it. Have you ever been asked to perform "free work" during an interview? It's sometimes hard to tell what counts as a reasonable ask to display your skills vs. making candidates complete actual work, especially when you're pressed for a job...

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The picture is what I imagine happened after they got my work and proceeded not to respond 🙃

If you’re interviewing for a company who doesn’t fundamentally understand your role they’ll typically ask for an assignment.

I've heard of agencies asking people to so things, but nothing that really amounted to actual work product that would be usable. I think it's mostly not about the actual work as just being able to see how someone responds to being given a task to perform. Do they do it on time, is it done professionally, and so on.

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