interviewing for a job in nyc, and the homework assignment is absurdly long and quite frankly very boring. and its not a company im too interested in anyway. how common/uncommon is this? any tips on how to phrase it nicely to withdraw? yoe 4 tc 135k
Awkward situation is that I asked for a 2 day extension so the recruiter asked me to send her the hw tonight... 😭
You asked for an extension and she responded with send it over now?
I asked for an extension on Friday night cuz I was out of country half the week and the recruiter sent the wrong file
Lol
Just say that you are no longer interested in their HW as you gotta enjoy your life.
Every interview I’ve had (then accepted) has only reinforced what the job has been. That’s good and bad. If you don’t like the interview hw you probably won’t like the work and if it’s too long then there are probably more dumb decisions awaiting after you start. Drop the recruiter a note saying you’re withdrawing you’re candidacy and wish them the best. It’s nbd.
Bruh not wanting to do a long homework assignment is perfectly reasonable. Them asking you to send it in after you asked for an extension is way more rude than you withdrawing. Just say you appreciate the time but are no longer interested and wish them luck moving forward (you can mention the hw assignment as a reason if your interested in the position, maybe you could skip it)
why would they expect people to do this kind of shit before an interview
You can withdraw at any point of time that too without mentioning the reason. I had done once because i had accepted another offer
It's 100% ok to withdraw anytime, even walking out of onsite interview if you no longer interested. Better then wasting people's time.
This is called crowdsourcing. Companies sometimes do this to use it to their benefit. They might be starting a new project and they want some ideas on what approaches to take and they ask for potential candidates to show them solutions. It may be a conspiracy, but I have had two times this happen to me. I did the first one, cause it was interesting. The second one I just ghosted them and they never came back. My advice is, if it’s interesting for you, do it. If not, just move on... don’t even bother about telling them anything... I don’t think it’s fair for companies to do such things
Can’t speak to other groups, but the groups around me use examples that clearly have nothing to do with our field, but still show related competence because we got tired of that accusation. If we’re asking an interview question we probably know most if not all the answers, and have also been using it a while so we can calibrate.
I agree with you. I don’t think Uber would do it. But the companies that I dealt with, especially one of them, I’m almost 100% sure it was crowdsourcing
You’ve accepted a job offer