It’s 2025 and you are applying for a software engineer position. They give you a test assignment. You complete it yourself, send it over, and get rejected. Why?

Because it looked like AI.

Unfortunately, it’s 2025, AI is spreading like glitter in a kindergarten, and it’s really easy to mistake hard human labor for soulless, uninspired machine slop.

Following are the main red flags in test assignments that should be avoided:

• The assignment was read and understood in full.
• All parts are implemented.
• Industry-standard tools and frameworks are used.
• The code is split into small, readable functions.
• Variables have descriptive names.
• Complex parts have comments.
• Errors are handled, error messages are easy to follow.
• Source files are organized reasonably.
• The web interface looks nice.
• There are tests.

Avoid these AI giveaways and spread the word!