Rejected, then recruited for the same role
A senior engineer reconstructed 96 days of recruitment from LinkedIn and email records. Fourteen days after one rejection, a recruiter from the same company approached them for the same title.
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Three hours of tests before a human read the application
Three named assessment products, two to three hours, and an automated rejection — all before anyone had read the application. The applicant's own observation is the sharp part: the tests cost the …
Nearly ten months on a take-home, then two questions
A senior frontend developer logged 109 applications while employed. At one company, nearly ten months on a take-home led to a director interview in which only two questions were asked.