The job market remains tough. (See image.)

While coding challenges for software engineer candidates are appropriate, marketing challenges remain an inappropriate request from potential employers.

Even should a marketing candidate be rejected, what’s been performed and submitted is ultimately unpaid consulting work.

The most notable delta between the two challenges in question is whereas software engineering has correct answers — eg. What are all of the different ways that numbers can be combined to equal the number 4? — marketing challenges request a candidate’s ideas, the number of which are as infinite as the number of candidates who’ve applied; thus this particular ask breeds mistrust.

Because if a marketing candidate’s current body of work isn’t sufficient enough for a company to make a candidate an offer

This same stance is echoed in "Stop asking candidates to make a marketing plan for your job interview process" by Jane Elizabeth for The Startup on Medium: https://lnkd.in/gp9ZQRu7

Are unpaid assignments in job interviews fair game?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unpaid-assignments-job-interviews-fair-game-nurturedbynatalia?trk=public_post_feed-article-content

Tests in general: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_k5xxzo_1q/?igsh=ajhpYnNnYXFyZnk2

Reddit Graph: https://lnkd.in/g_fJFa4X