Spending my entire Saturday on a take-home assignment just to receive an auto rejection is such a downer. There is no way they actually reviewed the 400 lines of code I wrote, or anything else I did. Should we start putting tracking pixels in our take-home projects to see if they even open the files?

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That’s wild. I would reach out to the recruiter and let them know how that rejection felt. Companies so often care about their repetition as a good place to work and the more feedback they get about the stuff the more likely it is to affect change.

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I had a company screw up their appointment times and they couldn't answer basic questions about role responsibilities. I told them I was done with the meeting and left. The recruiter called me before I left the parking lot, complaining about my behavior. No, the recruiter usually doesn't care about the hiree because that's not who is paying.

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While you're losing your weekend, what are they doing? How far along in the interview cycle are you? Is it the beginning or the end?

Personally, if I were told of the take home project from the beginning, I would walk away. It's a bad sign that they won't respect your time now or in the future. But if it's at the end and it got you that much closer to your dream job, take the win. You put in the effort and it didn't pan out... this time.

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