Asking for a friend. Company asked to do a specific project to present at interview, worked my ass off 40+ hours writing and perfecting code totally from scratch. 100% original. Invited to onsite in high regard as having submitted best code in years. Once there was able to walk though and explain line by line. Even optimize further on the fly with interviewers. Thought it went well, was looking forward and hopeful for offer, but they came back saying management suspects code may have been copied so not moving forward. Sure it could be coincidence that a for loop or 5 may have identical syntax to something in the ether, but what the hell? Is this any way to treat candidates? Very disappointed and distraught over the experience. Is there any recourse? Is there any point in blasting an email expressing disappointment and asking to reconsider to recruiter, interviewers, LinkedIn messages, etc?
Lol I can see how this is hilarious, but I'm a HW engineer, don't know anything beyond basic C and python. Also why would I try to further anonymize on an anonymous forum?
Seriously, just move on. It’s all a numbers game anyway. There is nothing you can do. It’s their loss.
What company? Name and shame these motherf*kers!
Never argue with the interviewers, you will never win. Either you use an off the internet solution down to the bug or the interviewer is shit and just don't like you. Either way there is no point working for them. Did you at least get paid for that 40 hours?
Nope, was assignment project to present at interview
Who gave the assignment?
That's why you should never accept a take home assignment. Imagine doing this for several different companies. What a waste of time
It’s a serious accusation. I am even surprised that they revealed the reason. They could have just said no. You should at-least ask them where they think u copied from.
They feel like a bunch of assholes to work for!
You are asking for yourself and you did plagiarize
How do you know he/ she did? Judgemental much?
It’s obvious. No company would give that kind of reason out to the candidate unless they were absolutely certain of it. They could have simply said No to him and moved on. OP would have felt he/she would get away with it but didn’t and now wants to get ideas on how he/she can deny and still have a shot as a candidate. No company would deny a good candidate on a mild doubt of plagiarism and then give that reason to the candidate. How naive are you to believe this person’s web spinning here
Just move on... It's not a good idea to pm interviewers,