After seeing several pages of negative reviews about Clipboard Health, I decided to test things for myself. I submitted a completely fake resume—literally a PDF of cabling instructions. Despite that, I was invited to complete a case study. The case study wasn’t simple busywork either. It involved analyzing a spreadsheet with over 2,600 rows and 12 columns of data—something that would easily take half a day or more to do right. Out of curiosity, I had AI generate a report and submitted it just to see if they actually reviewed the work. Less than an hour later, I was rejected. There’s no way a real person read or meaningfully evaluated the submission. It just confirmed what I suspected: Clipboard Health appears to be collecting unpaid labor under the guise of a hiring process. What’s worse, they don’t provide any feedback on what you supposedly did wrong. You give up several hours of your time for a task that benefits them, and they can't even offer a sentence of critique in return. Combine that with how their own website tells you to ignore the negative Glassdoor reviews (a huge red flag), and it really starts to feel like a scammy operation. Even people who claimed to be hired by them describe poor communication, inconsistent expectations, and a lack of clarity. Bottom line: steer clear. Clipboard Health seems more interested in getting free work than in hiring people fairly.

First, you fill out a basic form. Then, you’re asked to complete a detailed assessment involving a big dataset and case analysis. Unfortunately, they don’t appear to review submissions. I received an automated rejection email, and my analytics showed the assessment was never opened.

As all the other ratings mentioned, a case study came back as the next step. I don't mind this on principle as it is a skill-based assessment, though the way it is presented gives little direction on what they want, and there's no question or defined problem. They just throw 19 MB of data at you with some explanations on how the system works, and what columns are there. After spending a day and a half on figuring out what I could just to understand the scope of the data, I drilled down into what I felt was interesting since there is no guidance in the case. Five days later, I got the generic "thank you for completing the case study, but we will not be moving forward and we will not tell you why since we want to give more people the opportunity to do the same case." They should have given more clear objectives to the case so I would not have invested so much time into it, or given me feedback so I could have at least learned something from the effort put into this job application.