Totally wasted my weekend.
For a grad job, a lengthy video interview, 4 tasks and writing an entire interaction followed by a final face to face interview and a presentation is a big ask.
After a long week at work, I was still prepared to make the effort as the job looked interesting. I spent 3 full days on this and submitted the admittedly ambiguous tasks plus an entire scripted interaction. I submitted it on the Monday and received a form rejection with no feedback on the Tuesday. It's deliciously ironic that a company that specialises in Learning can't provide feedback. It's also incredibly frustrating. Sponge unfortunately has an interesting product and would be fascinating to work for. I could've contributed a lot as well. We'll never know now. It would be nice to know what the problem with my task was though. Was it the interaction task? I tried to think out of the box. Oh well. The risk clearly wasn't worth it.
EDIT: I got detailed feedback after submitting a SAR. Would it not make sense to provide that level of feedback to the rejected candidate since you have it? Seems a bit of a waste really since you certainly wouldn’t hire me based on what was quite frankly, in parts, quite unnecessarily vicious criticism! Incidentally, you objected to the fact that my interaction task focused on VR.. A. You have VR tasks as case studies on your own website and B. surely it’s supposed to be an example of what the candidate can do? Complaining that you couldn’t use my interaction task as it would be too expensive…? You were planning to use candidates’ work despite rejection?
That’s not very professional!
You didn’t like my presentation based on ‘the hardest thing I’ve had to teach’ which in my case was delivering a creative writing class to offenders. You were the ones who specify PowerPoint which most recognise as archaic now. My cartoon images of ‘criminals’ were for some reason according to yourselves ‘dehumanising’. Had I used real ones, I would’ve massively breached GDPR and lost my current role! With respect, I’m the expert in this particular career field not you!
In summary, I’m surprised that a company this amateur can attract clients the size of Google and Coca Cola!