K H E S T A

Design assessments are getting ridiculous and I don’t think we’re talking about it enough. How is “design a full dispatch scheduling system for an oil & gas company” a test?? Not just a few screens, a full system: Admin dashboard, worker flows, group assignments, movement tracking, reporting, even GPS-based check-ins. That’s not an assessment. That’s a product. Then you add “earliest and best submission will be selected” so now it’s unpaid work and a speed test. And the part that really threw me off… Who is this even for? No clear company presence, no real product context, just a highly detailed brief asking people to design an entire system from scratch. It feels less like a hiring process and more like idea mining. Because what exactly are you evaluating? It’s no longer just design skill. You’re filtering for who has the most free time, who can drop everything, who is willing to overextend themselves for a maybe. If an assessment takes more than a few hours, pay for it. Anything else is just… very suspicious behaviour. A designer’s existing work should already tell you what you need to know. If it doesn’t, the problem is probably how you’re evaluating them and not the designer.

Am I the only one that prefers learning new things than applying for jobs Even though I'm currently unemployed 😂😂