I am so sorry about your experience! That is never our intent and it’s very appreciated that you took time out of your day to share feedback. I’ve reviewed our application process and I believe you may be referring to our email screening step as the questionnaire. This includes brief email screening questions, such as “Can you share an example of when you needed to intervene with someone on your team?” We want to understand a candidate’s relevant experience so that we update candidates as soon as possible. With over 2,000 amazing applicants for this role (and very few who received the questionnaire), it’s so important that we’re thoughtful with candidates’ time. Later on in the application process, we do have a project phase that is fully compensated so both candidates and our team can experience what it is like to work together. This project phase doesn’t seem to be what is referred to in your message but I’d hate to miss anyone! I have double checked to make sure our team didn’t make a mistake anywhere. Our records show that all projects have been compensated but please contact us at careers@firstday.com if we’ve made an error so we can make things right. Thank you so much!