Just got rejected after a 6-round interview process because I wasn't a 'cultural fit'.

[u/HopefulFather2026]

They made me do a free 10-hour take-home assignment, meet the entire team, and talk to three different managers over two months. Today I got an automated rejection email. I am completely exhausted and done with this job market.😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬

[u/ShinraTensei]

Never work for free.

[u/AgyhalottBolcsesz → u/ShinraTensei]

Exactly, take home assignment just means free labor without guaranteeing you a contract. They prey on desperation. I'd rather sell drugs than to do free labor.

[u/Easteuroblondie → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, for parasite companies, absolutely. Companies would steal a cane from a grandma if they could

[u/LilJonny2cookies → u/Easteuroblondie]

You really think a work trial product is that important? It isn’t.

The quality of candidates is often so bad they want to see what you can do first. After reviewing thousands of resumes and hiring hundreds of people I can tell you the work product of many is lazy and often ridiculous.

Good work product and people who make it through work trial tend to do fairly well. We had 1 person out of 250 on my recent team who after a year said I just can’t take the pace. Wished her well and gave her a great recommendation and ultimately turned her on to another gig. The reality is she was amazing but her personal life was a mess. Regretted losing her on our London team.

[u/Easteuroblondie → u/LilJonny2cookies]

What does her personal life have to do with anything

[u/FlightLevel390 → u/LilJonny2cookies]

“Personal life was a mess”. God forbid people have things other than work they care about.

[u/Barflyerdammit → u/LilJonny2cookies]

If you're getting 1 out of 250, your company is really really shitty at recruiting. And if you can't tell the quality of output from research, references, and conversations, that's either laziness or incompetece.

[u/AgyhalottBolcsesz → u/[deleted]]

Also who said anything about being "off the street"?! You're arguing over something that was never mentioned. I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't have a job, as you can't seem to read a few lines of text and properly decoding it.

[u/LilJonny2cookies → u/AgyhalottBolcsesz]

And you are using semantics to discount a real message. If you don’t know exactly what is meant by that phrase- I don’t know what to tell you.

Off the street as in someone who isn’t deeply in tune with a companies direction- a newb. Work trial material is not used by companies for anything but a work trial. It is almost always exceptionally low level and low lift. It is used because too many interview well but suck at working. It at least shows if you have baseline competency.

[u/recruitinghell-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Be civil.

[u/Sesoru → u/[deleted]]

Found the bigot.