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by bogomipz 1397 days ago
The entry for this company Haraj states:

>"Just fyi, this submission make up to 50% from your overall hiring score. While your CV only make up to 5%. So do your best to create great submission!"

>"UPDATE (2022-02-05):

Due to many great candidates have applied to this vacancy, we decided to close this challenge on Friday (2022-02-11). So we will wait for the last submission until Thursday (2022-02-10) at 23:59 WIB." [1]

This is like a cattle call audition with a hard deadline. Who would do this? Also there is absolutely no indication of how much time one should spend this. I'm guessing this is intentional. If you want to give me a deadline there better be pay involved. I hope people are smart enough to call BS on these companies. Hopefully a company making demands one's time without compensation is a huge red flag for people.

[1] https://github.com/riandyrn/owldetect

1 comments

People with a bad CV but good skills would do it. There are a lot of those people entering the market every year so it makes sense for some companies to look for gems among the people other companies considers unhireable.
That doesn't seem to make sense. If someone had good skills why wouldn't they just embellish their resume a bit? Also there's still a preliminary phone screen interview before even asking a candidate to complete this.