I had an awesome thing happen to me yesterday and wanted to share it with the community.

Over the course of the last month or so I have been applying for jobs and have generally met with negative experiences as a prospective employee (not returning calls or emails, multiple form rejection letters for the same position, etc).

One of the places I applied had a programming exercise on their site and specified in their job posting to submit the exercise along with your application. The exercise looked fun and took about an hour so I did it and submitted my application.

A few days later I received an email in reply. They had already filled the position months ago and had forgotten to take down the job posting from the board I saw it on. They appreciated the time I took in applying and since it was their error they sent me a $50 Amazon Gift card as a thank you.

I was so impressed with this I thought it deserved some public recognition. The company is Table XI <www.tablexi.com>.