Ten hours for a four-hour task, then nothing
Told it would take about four hours. It took ten, across two days. Then two weeks of the silence they'd asked him to wait through — and more after that.
#underestimated-effort
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The company that said it pays candidates, and didn't
Fifteen-odd requirements sold as a couple of hours, which took days — from an employer that had publicly stated it pays for every stage regardless of outcome.
Three hours, six endpoints, and a frontend from scratch
A recruiter sent a zip file with a three-hour budget for work that could not be done in three hours. He worked out what the exercise was really measuring.