# The Sixth Round Was a Briefing on the Four Unpaid Hours

**[TRUE STORY]** — by Candidate · via X

By the sixth round the meeting was not an interview but a briefing on the four-hour take-home assignment still to come. The interviewer then asked whether the candidate had used a coding agent to build it. Six rounds in, the process was still adding unpaid work and auditing whether the work was the candidate's own.

*Source: [@oetzi199 · X · 1 like, 1 reply · 9d old · LOW ENGAGEMENT](https://x.com/oetzi199/status/2097764123216138623)*
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