I applied for a UX Designer role and was invited to a 30-minute interview with the Product Unit Manager (at the time of my review here) at CompuGroup Medical Deutschland AG. In the interview I had barely 2 minutes left at the end to ask questions. Afterwards, I was assigned a case study directly by the same person. This was not a small exercise: it included two parts – a full presentation and an extensive interactive Figma prototype with mid-fidelity screens. The assignment was very specific and seemed directly related to a real internal problem the company was trying to solve. I submitted both files as requested, but no follow-up interview was scheduled to present or discuss my work. Despite seeing that my files were accessed by the manager and a collaborator, I never received any feedback. More than a month later, I was simply ghosted. This is a textbook example of unethical recruitment in UX design: asking candidates to provide free, production-level work and then disappearing without a word. It shows a lack of respect for applicants’ time and expertise. I’m sharing this to warn fellow designers, if you apply here, be prepared that your effort might be exploited with no recognition or feedback.