I spent a few days on the document, not doing other job hunting because I did believe there was an open position at the company, even though family & friends all said it's a shady request. But still, if there were an open position and they were honestly looking to hire, I definately wouldn't get the job if I refused to cooperate with their interview process.

When I sent to document, I was excited and proud and couldn't wait to discuss my ideas with them and next steps. I received an email confirming they they received the deck, and they would follow up the next week. That call, email, letter, post-it never arrived.

6 months later I went back to their website and it didn't look like they had added that position to their staff, and I went looking for them on the internet and to my surprise, they had implementing one of the ideas I gave them a few weeks after I had sent them.

I think they had a the *bright* idea to post a high-paying job online to get in 10-15 (albeit unemployed) experts from around North America to put some time into brainstorming and give them fresh new ideas. For FREE. On the unemployed person's time, energy and cost.

From a company that is in the green space, and states their entire company mission around looking out for consumers (from companies), I have to say I'm very disappointed that they would do something so shady like that.