Prompt · Hiring

Take-Home That Respects Time

Designs a fair, time-boxed take-home assignment candidates won't resent.

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role title2–3core skill

Your prompt

Design a take-home assignment for [role title] finalists with these constraints:

- Completable in [2–3] hours max
- Uses no proprietary company data
- Identical brief for every candidate

Include:
1. The brief, a realistic but sanitized task testing [core skill]
2. Exactly what to submit and in what format
3. Evaluation criteria with weights
4. What 'great' vs 'acceptable' looks like
5. A note to candidates explaining how it will be used, and a clear statement that we won't use their work commercially

Also give me 3 interview questions to debrief the assignment with them afterward.

Paste it into Muse or any assistant. Blank fields stay as [brackets].

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