First round: Was asked about past experience, what I am looking for and why I want to apply. Second round: Asked once again about experiences and what I want. Asked specifically about diversity in the workplace. Third round: Work on a piece of code on Github and create a PR. The task is extremely vague. Asking details about the task yields more vague results. Fourth round: Talk about the task. This was supposed to be a 1 hour interview. On the fly was converted into a 1.5 hours one. I obliged. While speaking it was very clear that neither of the interviewers had spent any time looking into my solution. On top I was expected to do live coding even though no one had mentioned this and the person responsible for the email detailing how this stage of the interview was going to be structured never sent out the email in the first place. Fifth round: Generic email saying I was not chosen 2 weeks after the interview. After all this, they could not even find the time to schedule a call and tell me that I was not chosen for specific reasons, just a generic email. Glassdoor comments about this company and their interview process helped me set expectation a lot. From what I read here, I already knew that this interview was a waste of time. I went along with it for the experience. If you are really interested in finding a new job, I would advise you to stay away from this company.

First call with a non technical recruiter that went well and gave a good impression of the company. The second call was with someone who was in a people lead position. First I selected open slots in the calendar for that interview. I logged in, 10 minutes passed and no one in. By the time I was writing the e-mail, I received another e-mail from recruitment asking if I was still interested in the position since I had "missed" the call. Then I got a rearranged interview and there were a couple of red flags, started with a question such as "if diversity was important" since the founders and owners came from the same background and university. I read some reviews mentioning "nepotism", I wasn't expecting someone that is in a leadership position being so upfront about this. Kudos for honesty, but the fact that this was thrown out in the beginning of the interview was baffling. The second discomfort was that I was told that if we moved on to the next steps, that would be a code challenge, I would have 7 days to complete but the average candidate finished in 4 hours. So when exactly would be the time tracked? By commit log? By the time I accepted the challenge on Github? Or by the time I received an e-mail? The challenge was not difficult but it was not clear what they were looking for. There were some template of tests with some test cases and two requirements. They mentioned that they were looking for the balance between "building ourselves" and "not reinventing the wheel" and that it "makes for interesting conversations to follow up in the technical interview and code walkthrough", however I never received any feedback on the code that was provided.