The company should give additional feedback upon request to candidates that have put in significant time and effort to complete the written exercises. To ask a candidate to write a 2-3 page document followed by a 4-6 page document, and then not give any feedback or context around why the candidate was rejected, is simply unfair and unprofessional. Clipboard rejected me without any feedback on the longer of these two exercises, and my emails to two people asking for feedback went unanswered. I have no issue with the exercises themselves. I actually wish more companies followed a similar process as Clipboard by incorporating exercises that closely mimic work that the candidate would actually do on the job. This gives me confidence that the company is hiring qualified candidates. And ultimately, interview exercises are optional insofar as no candidate is forced to participate in the interview process for any given company. So to clarify, I do not have an issue with Clipboard using these exercises in their interview process. With that said, Clipboard's exercises take more time to complete, by FAR, than any other company's. In return, candidates would like to know that their submissions are evaluated in a serious and fair way. Candidates also expect some explanation when they are rejected after submitting one of these exercises. @Clipboard - pay attention to these reviews and really consider whether your recruiting process is cultivating the kind of reputation that you want.