I had a telephonic interview with the CEO of the company at the beginning of the process, in which I clearly stated that I had a very little experience in real world application development and thus he was concerned whether I could work on any other technology apart from my forte. So he gave me a coding challenge in which I had to develop a full-fledged web application from UI to services to database and everything. I completed the challenge in around 2.5 months as I was working on it after my day job and had to learn the technology which I decided to work with. I was given a very vague requirements for the product thus didn’t cared about designing it very robustly (as I thought it was supposed to be a dummy demo project). After all this time spent I was hoping to get an interview call but received an email to carry out some improvements which I gracefully accepted and tried to improve whatever was possible but I couldn’t change few things which were against my design as I considered it a demo project in the beginning. Thus, finally after committing the improvements I was hoping to get a call from them but instead received another mail after a month that they couldn’t carry my candidature forward as I lack the skill of Design Patterns. So if you consider applying to a company where you tell them at the beginning of the interview that you don’t have much of experience in development but are keen to learn whatever comes to your way and they tell you that they are not interested in your profile after your last three months of sleepless nights, working on a web-app which won’t be ever put to production, please do consider applying here (I guess it is something I couldn’t learn in future). It was just too overwhelming for me to understand that why would they considered my profile in first place if they had certain pre-requisite which I didn’t fulfilled.