Shady Hiring Process - Avis employé Employé (anonyme) CodeCombat

I applied to a Business Development Associate position. I was asked to complete a writing task after they accepted my application. One of the tasks was to write an email to an existing potential partner for CodeCombat. This is a fine and normal task, other than the fact that they required real names and real emails to be used, and when I followed up week after week on the status of my application, I was met with radio silence. It unfortunately made me think my worst nightmare to be true, that this is a company that uses writing tasks and my free labor and time to gain resources/connections for themselves.