'Was I overreacting?': Worker takes a stand after finding themselves unexpectedly in a working interview

I've shared this story before… but one of the worst interviews I ever attended was an interview for a sales role at a recently acquired-and-then-killed business communications startup. I had just finished university, was incredibly burned out and was struggling to figure out what I wanted to do next. An acquaintance referred me to an interview at this startup, and like any young college graduate, the allure of a startup's promises of infinite growth and unbridled opportunity was too great. The first round interview went well enough, or so I thought at the time; retrospective insight reveals an interview that was chock-full of all the typical startup and sales interview red flags and buzzwords. The interview also came with some homework: compile a list of 150 new sales leads, some of which should be within a new vertical that the company could expand into. The second round of interviews would consist of cold-calling 10 of these new leads. They'd managed to round up 15 candidates for this round, so some quick math should tell you the crazy amount of leads they were hoping to farm from this process.

Ever stubborn, I objected to this process; the HR associate running the interviews obstinately insisted. Needless to say, I didn't get the job, but to this day, I'm glad I stood my ground. 

This worker shared their own story of being asked to undertake an “applicant shift” before being finalized for a role. They, like myself, objected to the process and shared their story on Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit.

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