Extremely unprofessional and disrespectful hiring process.
After the initial interview, I was given a test assignment that took me over 3 hours to complete. After submitting it, the company spent several months giving vague updates, constantly postponing any decision, referring to an “MVP release” and a “temporary hiring pause,” while providing no feedback at all and taking no responsibility for the candidate experience.
In the end, I was simply ignored after completing the test task. When I explicitly raised the issue of my time being wasted, I received a standard response: “we do not pay for test tasks,” completely ignoring the core problem — the lack of feedback, accountability, and basic respect toward candidates.
If a company does not have the resources to hire, it should not assign test tasks. If it does assign them, it should at least provide a decision and feedback. This did not happen here.
The overall impression is that the company does not value candidates’ time at all.