ClickUp Interview Questions
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They had a few quick initial calls, which were pleasant enough, but the overall design hiring process felt outdated and a bit unethical. It wasn't super clear what was going on, and I ended up getting an automated rejection email. They made me do an unpaid take-home assignment where I had to create an interactive prototype and a video walkthrough, plus I had to show two case studies from my portfolio. The task and the required output took way more than a few hours, which just feels exploitative. The prompt was really specific, and the design file they gave me had components from their own library already linked. Like, what was that supposed to test? Usually, for a Senior Designer role, a behavioral interview and a portfolio review are more than enough to check someone's skills.

The interview process had 3 main steps: a recruiter call, then a hiring manager chat, and finally a task. You'd have one round with the recruiter, followed by the hiring manager. Then, a different manager would interview you. Sometimes there's a 4th step involving a task. It was a good process overall, and the talent team was helpful throughout.

The phone screening was an easy interview. The virtual on-site was okayish. The coding part wasn't difficult, but they wanted the optimal solution, and I messed up by implementing a simply working one and ran out of time to fix it. Sys design was confusing; they asked me to design a specific part of a specific system without giving much detail about what's already implemented or what to focus on. After I spent about 10 minutes explaining the API server, they said it already exists, which was odd. The behavior interview was the classic type. I got rejected quickly with a long, copy-pasted message. When I asked for more detailed feedback, I got no response. Anyway, I'd try again, but it was a rather negative experience, definitely not a difficult interview with more collaborative interviewers.

I was really excited about this job because it matched my resume, especially my experience driving adoption. I thought I was there to contribute strategically, but it turned out to be a scam. I ended up doing over 50 hours of free work, thinking it was part of the hiring process. The role had been open for ages, and the process was super fast: one chat, a culture call, then a big assignment they gave me five days for. I worked myself sick trying to do an amazing job, all while juggling my full-time work, family, and missing my son's birthday. I basically delivered a full client strategy engagement for free, including a custom ClickUp workspace, onboarding frameworks, KPIs, stakeholder maps, gamified training, usage tracking, dashboards, a live walkthrough, and a presentation deck. The panel seemed impressed, with one admitting adoption was tough and another learning a new ClickUp feature. One panelist was super positive and said I'd hear back soon, but another was disengaged and rude, even walking out mid-presentation. This mixed reaction was weird, maybe deliberate. I told the recruiter about the positive feedback, and she said I was teaching them things and would update me. But then radio silence all week. On Friday afternoon, I reached out and got a rejection email almost instantly. When I called them out for essentially using me for free strategic work, the recruiter ghosted me. This kind of thing is happening a lot; companies are using 'evaluation' as a cover to get free labor. The whole process felt real, but it was just about extracting value, not finding the right candidate. Others have had similar experiences, being asked to 'help strategize' and then getting ghosted. ClickUp is exploiting candidates for unpaid labor instead of hiring people for strategy. If they learned from my demo, they got free consulting. Pay for insight and strategy. People are watching. Candidates, if a process moves too fast, the assignment is unpaid and strategic, or they seem more interested in your ideas than you, trust your gut. You're not being hired; you're being harvested.