Hey ya’ll, please let me know if this is would fit better in another subreddit.
So, I’m interviewing for a Dept on my campus this Friday (it’s a part time, work study type of position) and in the initial email to me, they’ve attached a doc with a prompt as follows, formatted with only a header and a few sentences.
“For your interview, please share with us a programming idea for an in-person event that will serve Undocumented students. Based on your programming idea, how would you utilize an $800 budget?”
I feel like this requires a significant amount of brainstorming and resource gathering – so much so that I have to pose the question of whether or not it’s possible for a job to be trying to take advantage of students’ ideas and pass them off as their own?
Or perhaps they’d hire the candidate with the best idea and just work with them?
Please let me know your thoughts – I’ve got a good amount of experience working at my university and have encountered my own hiccups but don’t want to read too into it.