I applied to a software developer “apprenticeship” at a local start-up. They emailed me multi-hour initial coding challenge as first-round interview.
The apprenticeship lasts 3 months with potential for full time employment. I don’t want to leave my current job to be potentially unemployed after 3 months, so I asked for an estimate on how many apprentices are offered full time employment after their contract completes. They do not have estimates they can share “at this time”.
I have approximately 48 hours to complete this challenge. Wondering if I should bother. It seems to be that an apprenticeship is created specially to train / acquire workers. They must have statistics on number of people offered jobs after? Is it a red flag that they refuse to share? Should I do this challenge all night knowing that I have work 8am tomorrow?