Acing a recruitment task? Get ready to be rejected!
I'm done, guys. In April, I sent an application for a Fullstack Python Developer internship at Samsung R&D.
After (allegedly) reviewing my CV, they decided to invite me to a test assessing my technical skills:
Great! I indeed got the e-mail with the invitation link soon after:
So I managed to find some time and solved the test the same day, fully focusing for ~90 minutes.
Here are the results I got:
Please note that correctness was the only and key factor in the assessment.
It was explicitly stated in the test description that nobody was going to review my code.
I cannot provide a screen as it's not available to me already, since I completed the assessment.
Happy that I did it, I waited the next 18 days to get hit with this:
Seriously, Samsung? 100% being "not sufficient"?
Can you believe I had to write this e-mail?
-- bswck
Whatever their reason (if they indeed have one), this process and response from Samsung is incredibly rude and disrespectful of your time. Don't make people do 1h30 of tests if you know you won't hire them because they're not in the right country, or don't have enough experience, or are too young / too old for your taste, or whatever.