Orderful interview questions

I’m going to echo what other candidates have said: this process wasted my time. I took personal time to complete the coding assessment, only to receive shallow and incomplete negative feedback. The solution was fully functional, with trade-offs that are entirely reasonable given the expected timeframe of a couple of hours. In every other interview process I’ve been part of, the real value of a take-home assignment comes from the follow-up conversation explaining your rationale and discussing why certain decisions were made. That conversation never happened here. Instead, I received generic feedback that lacked depth or context and strongly resembled an AI-generated response, as if prompted with something like “list improvement points for this project".

I was contacted by a third-party recruiter, standard 10 to 20 minute phone conversation with them. Then I was connected with the hiring manager for a 30 minute background / experience interview. From their I received their take-home assignment. I spent a good day of work on this wanting to ensure that I produced something good. A couple days after sending this assignment in, I was invited to do a 3 hour "Final" interview. After the first hour of this interview, the hiring manager jumped onto the zoom call and said "something came up" and we would have to reschedule. I reached out to reschedule but did not receive a reply. A couple days later I received the boiler plate rejection email. This would all be fine and standard, but please if you expect an applicant to commit time to interviews and take home assignments, don't waste their time! Scheduling a 3 hour interview requires the applicant to take a day off work / hiring a sitter / is a large commitment outside of already requiring the applicant to finish a take-home assignment that is not time-boxed. I have been through a lot of interviews at this point but I have never felt this level of disrespect or disposability from a company.