AI wrote my entire take-home assignment and the hiring manager said it was "brilliant"
I am officially done spending six hours on free labor for companies that might ghost me. Last week a startup sent me a massive data analysis task. Usually I would sweat over every cell in Excel but this time I just fed the prompts into GPT and asked it to clean the data and write the summary. I spent maybe ten minutes tweaking the tone so it sounded like me.
I sent it off and the recruiter called me today saying the team was blown away by my attention to detail. It is honestly hilarious because if they want to treat a hiring process like a standardized test then I am going to use a calculator. I
f the work is accurate and they are happy with the results then it shouldn't matter how the sausage gets made. If they are going to respect my time then I will respect theirs but until then I am staying efficient.
Posted Jan 30, 2026, 5:14 AM UTC