Take-Home Task Ghosting
Alert #36
Remote AI Coding Specialist & Domain Expert
Company: Outlier.ai
45 Days of Silence
1 Interview Round(s)
Candidate Experience Narrative
Candidate completed extensive onboarding tests and 4 hours of unpaid benchmark evaluation coding. Dashboard immediately shifted to 'Queue Empty / Assessment Under Review'. Multiple support tickets were closed automatically without human response while identical job postings refreshed continuously on LinkedIn and Indeed.
📋 Uncompensated Assessment Details: 4-hour unpaid multi-turn Python reasoning and benchmark prompt annotation test
⭐ Ghost Severity Rating: 4.02 / 5.0
Rating Analysis: High severity driven by unpaid multi-hour evaluation task exploitation (4.9), perpetual global reposting across dozens of cities (5.0), and massive community corroboration on Reddit and Glassdoor (4.9).
Rubric Breakdown: Silence: 4.2/5.0 | Rounds: 2.0/5.0 | Take-Home: 4.9/5.0 | Reposting: 5.0/5.0 | Consensus: 4.9/5.0
🔗 Community Discussion & Evidence: Reddit (680 upvotes, 290 comments) — https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/1df832k/outlier_ai_assessment_empty_queue_ghosting/
🔍 LinkedIn Footprint: Perpetually Reposted (6+ months). Continuously active across 40+ metropolitan locations with rolling 14-day repost cycles. Glassdoor reviews report 1.9 stars for interview experience, citing mass onboarding ghosting.
Recruiter Contact (Protected)
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