The company gave me a 7day long challenge to design an end to end full blown interface for their existing internal tool. That was a huge amount of work along with research. With a full time job, I spent several nights working on this. Fully polished hi fidelity work and after all that, they rejected me. Reason? There’s someone better in the pipeline. I know the competition is fierce at the moment but do y’all think it’s fair to make me do so much work? Aren’t there other ways to assess my skill set that doesn’t require such a huge investment on my end? What are your thoughts? Open to contradicting responses. I’ll adjust my expectations accordingly. YOE: 5yrs
And you decided to do this for free? Id never. Dont care company is faang or "prestige". I only care what i get in return and how much i get paid. Prestige don't matter
No FAANG does take homes anymore either. That's some arcane bullshit.
Companies do that to farm ideas
Tesla is an awful place to work at. But yeah, next time tell them to fuck off if you’re in a position to do that.
And since they didn’t hire you, feel free to use the work in your portfolio. They don’t own it, they never paid you for it.
You never want to do any work that's for an existing tool or problem that the company is facing. I usually avoid doing any take home projects, I suppose a hypothetical one that is unrelated to the company you are working for might be okay but if a company is really trying to evaluate your skillset they will give you a challenge to complete in 30 minutes and will evaluate your decision making and critical thinking skills. A 7-day long project is insane and unreasonable. I also heard Tesla is an awful place to work so maybe it's better you got rejected.
Yes I do agree with you. However, I’m also desperately looking move and I was of the mindset that I’ll do whatever it takes. I guess companies are really exploiting that these days.
Is this even legal? In some states there are laws where they have to give you a test assignment completely unrelated to their line of business if they're not going to compensate you for your time. I once was asked to do a test assignment that involved a topic related to this employer's business and was paid the hourly rate I asked for to work on it (this is in NY state).
I’m in CA. So I really don’t know about the legality of this. However, I didn’t know I could ask for a pay. Maybe something to keep in mind for next time.
You shouldn't have to bring it up from your end cause it's the hiring team's responsibility to be legally compliant. My experience happened while interviewing for one of IAC's properties many years ago, and they told me up front that they were going to pay me for up to 8 hours to do a test assignment and asked what my hourly rate was.
The minute you get a take home exercise that has *anything* to do with the company’s business, run. Huge red flag.
I interviewed with the Tesla and they asked the same. It’s clear that their design org sucks. No respect for candidate or design
Did it work out for you atleast?
I was at Meta when I interviewed with them. Tesla asked me to design some internal tool for their use case during the interview. The recruiter got laid off during the process and the hiring manager had no clue what they were lookjng for. Never seen a big tech with such disorganized design hiring process.
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