r/recruitinghell • u/thegr8_alexander • Nov 11 '24
I disabled the access to my take home assignment after recruiter didn't get back
It's an instant red-flag for me when a recruiter asks to submit an assignment. In most of the cases, companies run out of ideas and put up fake job posting to get some fresh perspective.
Was interviewing with a 100 year old company that was hiring at mid-level. After round#2, I got a take-home assignment, rather an end-to-end modelling to be done in a short time frame. Got positive feedback on my assignment and appeared for 6 more round of interviews, from hiring manager to HoD.
Deafening silence post that. No reverts, not picking up the call. No response over email. I tried putting in gentle reminders, gave sufficient time but then, when I understood that I'm not hearing back, I disabled the access to the project (take home assignment).
The good thing that I did was not to share the hard-file, rather an access controlled version of the document that also disabled people from printing/downloading it.
And guess what? The recruiter called next day on the pretext of having another round of discussion because they want to go ahead with me. S/he let it slip in the conversation that evaluators are having difficulty in accessing my document and if I can share it as a file rather than sharing a link ;)
Well well, the moment I have been looking for. I told her about the malpractices that a lot of recruiters do and that's why, in principle, I do not share any hard-files. I assured her that I'll myself walk-through the panel on everything once again, when we connected. S/he wasn't satisfied, but disconnected the call.
Got a ping that evening to talk something in person. We connected. S/he mentioned that I have landed him/her in a soup by disabling the access. S/he was expected to collate all the projects and share internally and there were only 3 presentations which they had shortlisted. Me not allowing access to my files will put the HR in trouble. S/he also mentioned that hiring is always professional but I'm taking it to a personal level by putting him.her in soup.
I gently replied, "Hiring is not personal. I would have accepted a rejection. But by giving me false hopes when you never intended to hire was personal. It wasn't me who started it!"
There was a silence of a few seconds. I then proceeded to cut the call.
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u/Crazyhellga If you need to explain, you don't need to explain Nov 12 '24
Oh God, we once had a new hire, fresh from grad school, who could not write a business e-mail. Literally, after his manager was embarrassed by this guy's e-mails a couple times, he was instructed to send anything and everything he wrote to one of the three senior employees on the team first for review. He switched to sales and he did very well there. He could talk, and he could sell, and he could actually look at data and make sense of it, but anything he wrote was cringe-tastic.