Interviewing for an ECD position at a startup and was asked to complete a 48-hour turnaround “case study assignment”. How would you respond?

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No thanks, and good luck in your search.

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Agree. Politely decline and wish them the best of luck. They’ll need it.

What’s the salary?

In the 300k ballpark

I am a Sr CD at a startup and we ask leaders to walk us through work examples that answered specific briefs that are relevant to our goals as an org. We don’t ask senior leaders to create new work as part of the interview process.

Yep, I’m more interested in how they talk about their process and the team they led on the project than the output. But our creative leadership is egoless by design.

How long would the task take? If it's 1 hour or under I say do it, if not, walk away

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