Skipped the personality tests. Ignored the emails. Got the job anyway.

A candidate on r/OfficePolitics applied for a copywriting role and immediately hit the usual friction: a battery of irrelevant personality tests that had nothing to do with writing. The hiring manager sent follow-up emails. The candidate ignored them all — the tests, the nudges, the automated reminders. Despite skipping every assessment, the company invited them to interview anyway. The interview itself went smoothly. They got the offer. The process was chaotic from the outside but, somehow, the right person still ended up in the right seat — proof that even a broken funnel occasionally delivers.