I applied for a Talent Recruiter role at Ziplines Education. I was invited to complete an assignment before speaking to a recruiter. The assignment was to choose a real job description on their live careers page, make edits, and record a video explaining how I'd make it more engaging. I submitted a video I worked hard on, only to get a generic rejection email from a no-reply email address providing no feedback; honestly, the email seemed like a template meant for candidates who'd never been asked to submit anything. I unfortunately, like others on this page, am left to believe that Ziplines is indeed crowdsourcing free consulting and exploiting candidates' time, energy, and expertise. I'm sure they'll reply to this review the same way they've replied to others alleging the same, so let me get ahead of that-if you're a prospective candidate considering applying, let the real data that real candidates are sharing with you here speak to you more loudly than their attempted deflections. And @Ziplines, if you really want to ask people to complete assignments, fine. But take the time to actually speak to those candidates first. Give them the respect and dignity of a live conversation to explore whether the role is a good fit before they're asked to invest their time and energy on an assignment and, if they "fail" that assignment, tell them how they can improve for the next opportunity. It's only fair. I intimately understand that recruiters can't provide feedback to every single candidate, but they absolutely shouldn't be inviting more candidates to complete assignments than they have the bandwidth to provide some feedback to. But, all's well that ends well-I'm glad we didn't move forward, as I'd really struggle to be part of a recruiting team that espouses these practices.