Met with People & Culture for a pleasant discussion to ensure values and skills align and then moved through to the next stage which is a take home challenge. The challenge however was completely out of scope for the advertised role and I should have seen this as a red flag not to continue. They wanted the applicant to deliver a campaign that would normally be developed through deep experience, understanding and consideration for the business with a large input from the marketing team. I invested 30 hours of work into the application only to be rejected a few hours after submission with 2 lines of generic, ambiguous and possibly AI generated feedback. Leading me to believe I may have just been IP mined. After asking for more detailed feedback and waiting for over a month then following up I got the same feedback again (copy & paste) with no further details. So that leaves me thinking "if I can't learn from this experience would I ever apply for a role at SWS again?" Probably not.