I went through something very similar — spent several days on a take-home assignment, took it seriously, carefully followed all the instructions and delivered everything.

Then I waited for two weeks, and all I got was a clearly templated response.

The worst part isn’t even the rejection — it’s the vague replies, or no reply at all.It just makes you feel like your time doesn’t matter.

Thank you for writing this. We really do need more people to speak up about these things.