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It took me about 6h to develop and iron out the edge cases.
My take away from this is that:
I will not do take home assignments for free if they take more than 1h of my time.
Otherwise I’d write to them and tell them that you have an issue. Chase a bit, presumably you don’t know the reason for the ghosting.
Having said that they could be ghosting you because they are assholes. There are unfortunately a lot of inconsiderate assholes in tech.
I've had the same experience. Submitted a working code test and crickets. I left it up on my GitHub named "{company name} coding test" and a couple of months later they asked me to take it down beacuse other people were plagiarizing it. Like them, I was concerned with the legal ramifications of providing any sort of contact, so I took no action and didn't respond.
That sort of thing happens —- try and be really clear what you expect back if you do an assignment. Put it on an email. Otherwise I’d write to them and tell them that you have an issue. Chase a bit, presumably you don’t know the reason for the ghosting. Having said that they could be ghosting you because they are assholes. There are unfortunately a lot of inconsiderate assholes in tech.
That sort of thing happens —- try and be really clear what you expect back if you do an assignment. Put it on an email. Otherwise I’d write to them and tell them that you have an issue. Chase a bit, presumably you don’t know the reason for the ghosting. Having said that they could be ghosting you because they are assholes. There are unfortunately a lot of inconsiderate assholes in tech.
There’s also a lot of people that think the world owes them something. Why do they owe you a response? OP agreed to do an assignment did but did they get the company to agree to call them back on a set date? A good job is like a hot girl they don’t have time to text back all the rejects
If the hiring process requires 2 minutes of the company's time for every 1 hour of yours they are pretty much guaranteed to waste your time.
I've made exceptions to this rule before for what I thought were good reasons and deeply regretted it every single time. I no longer believe there are exceptions.
Well did you do any research about the company before dedicating six hours of your life? At the end of the day you got more programming experience and avoided a toxic situation. Sounds like a win to me