A developer on r/recruitinghell, suspecting his take-home coding assignment was never actually being reviewed, embedded a deliberate error that would fire a notification if anyone opened the file. The company's rejection email landed within two hours. The notification never did. The recruiter had rejected code they never even ran.
True story · takehome abuse · Issue —
He Planted a Bug in His Own Take-Home Test. The Rejection Arrived Before the Notification Did.
As told to the Host · Storyteller verified · Software developer · via r/recruitinghell
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