# A Two-Hour Assignment, One Day, for a $60K Job

**[TRUE STORY]** — by Candidate · via r/recruitinghell

The first interview went really well. A marketing role, around sixty thousand a year, at a decent-sized company — and a feeling, she wrote, of genuine personal connection.

Then the email for round two. Before she could speak to anyone again, she was to complete a two-page assignment: about two hours of work, with a single day to finish it. After submitting, she would meet them once more to walk through her reasoning out loud — essentially, hand over her ideas and explain them.

Two hours of unpaid work, a twenty-four-hour deadline, and a follow-up meeting to defend it, all for a mid-range marketing salary.

She withdrew. She did not regret it, she wrote. It was just tiring, running into these processes again and again.

*Source: [r/recruitinghell · new post](https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/1wulxyx/take_home_assignments_will_be_the_bane_of_my/)*
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