Firstly we’re really sorry you feel this way and fully understand that a) this was not a normal interview process in this instance and b) the value of designers’ time, which we indeed cherish – our business depends on it. We would like to firstly make it clear that everyone received a response including feedback where constructive i.e. when simply not based on preference, despite good work. We had clearly pointed out in the email we sent (copied below) that we were inundated with applicants but wanted to make a permanent hire very fast (within a week - 10 days) which we did, and therefore asked if all designers were willing to undergo this process on these terms. The process was carried out as stated. None of the work provided and used in a task or interview process will ever be used and is not ‘free work.’ The brief was used to judge real work – for no other benefit than our team’s fast judgement and feedback in this instance. Again, we do apologise if you felt your hard work was not given the time and credit it deserved of a follow up interview. We hope that our terms were clear at the start regardless and we are very happy to talk more about the work itself if helpful. Please do email us directly. We wish you all the very best in your job search. Email sent (as referenced above): ‘Thank you so much for your application for graphic designer at Boldspace. We received over 150 applications in two days so have paused the process, several of which we really like, so would like to ask the 10 designers who we are most interested in out of the current applicants to do a task. We want to move fast with this process and so have set a deadline to receive presentations back by first thing Wednesday morning. In an ideal world we would then interview 2 or 3 of the top applicants (ideally in person) on Friday early afternoon in London, as myself and my business partner will be in town. Of course if the interview is not possible due to location or an immovable prior engagement, it will not be a deal breaker. I attach the task document (in both Powerpoint and PDF format). Please do let me know if you are willing and able to get something back to us by Wednesday morning, and many thanks in advance.’