The recruiter call was only about 10 minutes and then they send you a take-home assignment that has to be completed within 2 days. The frustrating part is you don’t even get the opportunity to present or explain your work. It feels like you either automatically move on or get auto-rejected based on a deck submission alone. I spent over 10 hours analyzing the dataset, building recommendations backed by the data, and putting together a thoughtful presentation, only to receive a rejection with no feedback. The process honestly feels unclear because nobody really explains what they are actually looking for. For the amount of work required, it didn’t feel worth the time investment. It’s frustrating because these assignments can take a huge amount of unpaid work, and from the candidate side it can feel like your analysis either gets instantly discarded or your ideas are simply taken without any discussion. Also, a lot of this type of analytics and recommendation work is already starting to be heavily impacted by AI. It’s hard to justify investing this much unpaid effort into a role when companies are actively looking for ways to automate and reduce these positions over time. If a company treats candidates this way during recruitment, it doesn’t exactly make you excited about potentially working there either.