After an initial phone screen with an internal recruiter, who was nice, I was initially excited about the company.

I talked with a manager three or four days later, then was assigned a '2hr' take-home assignment.

First of all, the 2-hour time expectation is a joke. Even someone with more experience than me would have spent a few days on it.

In the take-home, one of the tasks was to do something that wasn't even possible given a blocking issue. I asked for feedback about this and did not get any, even after a week. As I've read in other interview reviews, my experience was that Slack is disrespectful to candidates.

When many people have the same experience interviewing with a company, they should really pay attention and make changes. Slack hasn't done this.

After turning in the take-home, I got a rejection notice which also did not address the earlier issue.

Advice to applying candidates?

• Refuse take-homes unless it's something you want to do.
• From what I've seen, take-homes are a great way to stall candidates and not an effective way to hire unless proper feedback is given.

Interviewing itself is a job, and no one should be expected to spend a large chunk of time on an assignment when they're interviewing at many other places.

Needless to say, I had a sour experience and would not apply at Slack again.

The take-home was the hardest part; the rest was typical.

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