Job Aplication
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- rafalski0
"he next 1,5h you have to create and develop from scratch the corporate image and website design for the Sahib Hotel & Spa. Please try not to expand too much the time schedule. It is important for us to understand what you are able to do in this timeframe"
"if you need an extra day to send us your artwork, there is no problem."
Hahaha..
- dribbles0
Or they could be just trying to mooch concpets for a presentation they have coming up...
- cannonball0
"Based upon your response to my response, you have failed my SECRET interview on how qualified you are to employ designers. I have decided to pass on you. Best of luck with your time saving plans."
- akrokdesign0
"It’s our way to save time"
that pretty much sum it up. THE TIME SAVING AGENCY. lol.
we will bill the client 42 hours. we really only worked 1.5h.
- akrokdesign0
unless they do logo and website for 152 bucks, i get the rush.
- akrokdesign0
i think they just want to get some free work done from you.
- uberdesigner0
Tell them it takes you longer.
- mikotondria30
Yeh, this absolutely and honestly, in reality, without a word of a lie, judged by persons of experience, intelligence and integrity, is
bullshit.
The person who wrote this test is clearly - and I want to make this clear, a jumped up little wanker who has no understanding of how the people they will be employing can possibly consistently produce quality work. It is someone who is not, or has ever been in the role for which they are hiring, and indeed has not ever worked closely with or near people who do this work.
This is like going for a job as a legal secretary and being given the task of preparing opening statements on a class action case against a 'fictional drug company'. Just make up the complaints and the medical evidence.
If you really want a job at this company, go to the owner and wave this insultingly childish and inept little waste of time in their face and laugh, giving them an ultimatum that if they want a professional to do the job they have given to this monkey then they'd better hurry up about it, cause the whole operation is going to fail spectacularly if this person has any input whatsoever.
- ukit0
Anyone who thinks a logo and website should be produced in an hour doesn't understand good design.
- You just need to turn your design skills up to awesome.ninjasavant
- Im torn here because i agree with both ukit and ninja.ian
- lvl_130
i am out, but to leave you with a bit more info...
i have not had a look at your portfolio, or do i know your skill level (or the skill-level they are looking for), and speaking from my own point-of-view, i would think this approach is bullshit. your portfolio should speak volumes, first and foremost. if they are intrigued by your portfolio, then they should bring you in to talk with someone (or at least an over the phone conversation).
that being said, i have had to go through this type of test before. it was for my first internship while in college. i "passsed" it, and was brought on the team within 3 months.
is this for an internship? i doubt it. but if so, do the test. if not, you know the answer.
- and if what ian said is truth, then get to fucking work young man! you only got 1.5 hours!lvl_13
- ian0
hang on, something is coming through the haze here.
Didn't you post up a thread a day or two ago saying there were no junior design jobs in NY? then you get this? Christ man, it may not be ideal but beggars cant be choosers.
- 3point141590
Try spelling "application" correctly!
- janne760
Lately my loathing for agencies went from mediocre to alarming.
- lvl_130
first and foremost, how long have you been in the industry? this will explain (or discredit) this approach to you immensely. and it will help all of us (@qbn) help you out.
- ian0
Oh, I actually did this once.
Went tyo an interview, it was the most fucked up stupid interview I'd ever been to, the guy told me they'd laid off all their designers a few months before and were in the process of rebuilding. Jesus, way to instill confidence in me bro.
Anyway this bloke asks me to do a time trial to design a website in 3 hours. he leads me into the office and gives me a desk. I design a site, basic, but ok in 3 hours (plus a crash, cos Im on a PC) and I realise, this is a shit office. The place is like fucking dawn of the dead in there. Im sat in there with a bunch of fucking zombies (the left overs of the previous firing round) and I think, I do not want to work here.
next day I'm at another interview in a different place, they offer me the job on the spot and I take it, knowing I don't want to work in the other place. Ever.
Few days later I get a call from zombieville, do you want a job? No I say, and they say, you haven't heard the salary. Its more than the place I accepted but fuck it, its not worth it.
Two weeks later I get a cheque in the mail for the time I spent working on the time trial. Sweet i say. then spend the nest three years regretting accepting the job I took.
Fuck em, Im drunk anyway.
- ukit0
I guess if it was my dream job I would do it but it makes it seem like it would be hell to work there. Would that be your job everyday, designing websites in an hour?
- fusionpixel0
don't be a chicken and do it