I applied online at the direction of a third party site. The Managing Editor replied, stating my experience was interesting and there was a desire to learn more. I was asked to edit a 7-page, double spaced text with end notes and bibliography as a skills test using CMOS 17 and Webster's 11 AND the Press house style guide. I was surprised the house style guide was included, since those are usually variants on a standard style (like CMOS). In my mind, the priority would be to test my skills on the standard style because house style would be part of onboarding and a competency requirement of the actual position, should I be offered it. I was given 3-4 days to complete this task, and I returned the document explaining that it was likely I missed things, given the fact that I wasn't familiar with house style. I was slowed down having to check everything against it after doing CMOS/Websters, and I would have a question about applying the guide for the assigning editor in a very specific instance if this were my job and not a screening exercise. Less than 4 hours after submitting my screening exercise, I received a generic, form letter email rejection letter from the managing editor. Normally, I would archive and move on, but in this case, I was miffed. My screening exercise -- or my name -- was not even mentioned in the rejection letter, after I was asked to spend way more than an hour to complete a screening exercise. Any editor worth their salt would know asking someone to conform to house style for a seven-page document at this stage is more than one hour's work. Outside of this context, that request would warrant an invoice from a freelancer. Other review sites have stated the Press pays well under market rate, and doesn't value employees. Sadly, I am inclined to believe those experiences after my own. I've been writing and editing for years, and my areas of expertise require that I know CMOS intimately. Did I just do some free labor? Maybe, because I had a screener where I was asked to do work as if the Chicago River Press was paying me, and I was summarily dismissed.