College student applies for graduate job, company demands he complete 40 hour assignment for application: 'I thought I was crushing it'

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• A college student who was soon to graduate thought that he had made some progress in his job search when he secured an interview at a firm that wanted him to do a take-home assignment to test his skills. It ended up taking him forty hours over ten days to finish it.

  He thought that he had done well when he had a further interview to explain what he had done with the assignment. The company then ghosted him, and he realized that he was probably not the first candidate to experience this.

• I think I just spent two weeks working for free for a company that never intended to hire me

  

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