Someone reached out for a big design role (unsolicited), but they're insisting on a text-only interview. Last time I fell for this, I spent all day texting back and forth just to be ghosted. I’m desperate for work, but this feels like an AI training scam or something. Has anyone actually gotten a real job through a text interview, or should I just walk away?

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Text-only anything is always a red flag to just run away / ignore / block.

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You should be wary of that. A lot of scams use text interviews so the scammers can stay relatively hidden. Usually the scams are for low level work from home jobs, so the fact that it's purportedly for a big design role seems odd. You should be able to make some calls and find out how legitimate the organization is. If they don't have much of a public profile don't waste your time on it.

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I've fallen in to scams from these before

Almost fell for this scam a couple years ago.

It’s wild to imagine in this job market that recruiters/hiring managers would go through an entire interview cycle via text.

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