I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. A sourcer approached me on LinkedIn, inviting me to participate in the process, informing me of the company's tech stack, and, after my confirmation, sending links to the recruitment process clarification webinar and an application form.

A few hours later, I received email instructions for the first stage of the selection process: a coding challenge with attached specifications and an anonymous submission link, with a deadline of 5 calendar days for delivery. This exercise, despite being relatively simple, required good programming practices, documentation, and testing, in addition to requiring a significant amount of energy and time for quality delivery.

Such complexity contrasts completely with the transparency in case of rejections at this stage: it did not matter if the candidate engaged in the process and created more than 100 unit tests to maximize the chances or if it was done poorly; the feedback was in both cases a generic message without any justification for the decision.

In this sense, I leave here what I, as a candidate, expected as a minimum: feedback. Sourcers and recruiters, you do an excellent job of first contact, immersing candidates and engaging them exceptionally. Recruitment Operations team, you sabotage all the work of the TA team by disregarding the trajectory of candidates in the selection process.

Having my effort, which was immense, ignored made all the brilliance obtained at the beginning of the process and the motivation and admiration for the company disappear completely. I do not intend to apply for any vacancy in the future, nor accept invitations to the process, due to this neglect.

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