In short, I had very mixed feelings from the process. On one hand some parts felt very rushed and on the other the company was stalling and general internal chaos around hiring. To elaborate: I was approached by one of the internal recruiters, the offer was interesting so I agreed to a call. First call was alright, 30 minutes of speaking with the recruiter about the company and lining up expectations and basic info. Second call scheduled for the same week. Second call with the manager of the team that was being hired for and another dev. Manager conversation was great, seemed like a good fit and vibes were good. A minor red flag was admitting that they are unable to hire for the position for quite a long time now and are desperate to hire someone. Conversation with the dev was much different. They were asking questions clearly generated by ChatGPT if one asked "give me 10 difficult javascript questions" (I would know, I tried after and got 10/10) and they expected the verbatim answers and wouldn't take factually correct but worded differently ones. Proceed to the code challenge. Conceptually relatively simple however you are asked to complete the challenge within 24-48 hours. Which seems a bit short since you have to create a multi page application with CRUD, mocked API and tests. I turned in the assignment in two days and the review call was scheduled the same week. Review call All good, talked about the assignment. I was asked to explain some of my choices and make minor changes. Overall great result, all parties seemed very happy. And then silence. I followed up 3 times, mostly out of curiosity. 1st follow up I was told no decision was made yet 2nd got no response 3rd I was told that the position I was being hired for was in the meantime eliminated and that they are actively looking for an alternative. Later the same week I was told the company unable to provide an alternative and won't continue the hiring process but will approach me with future offers. The team members themselves seemed great, but the experience left me disappointed. The lack of follow-through and shifting circumstances suggested some internal hiring chaos. If the right opportunity came up, I might consider interviewing again, but I’d do so with tempered expectations.

1st round was a verbal technical round, all kinds of backend basics were asked like what is Rest, whats versioning, explain solid! 2nd round was c# Dotnet focussed, even after asking multiple times to the recruiter to tell what that round is going to be about, she kept saying DSA but it was a c# assignment (focussed too much on LINQ). Average difficulty but I was not prepared for this + recruiter gave no clarity!