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It is incredibly rude, unprofessional, and exploitative to have a potential employee complete MULTIPLE time-consuming sample projects before the interview, keep them for a two hour interview, and have them complete a sample project while at the interview… just to completely “ghost them” even when the potential employee follows up with multiple professional emails asking for updates with no response (one time there was a brief email sent back shortly after the interview to say they would get back to me but I never heard from them after that). It should also be noted they said they would get back to me within the week and it’s been over a month since I originally interviewed. No one is obligated to hire anyone, but it is bad business practice to not at least tell candidates that you have just put through a rigorous hiring process that the position has been filled by another candidate. But it looks like I dodged a massive bullet after reading former employee reviews and ownership’s petty responses. Maybe it’s time for some self reflection?