A recruiter contacted me and asked if I wanted to pursue a traditional engineering role or a frontend engineering role. I chose frontend.

They scheduled the interview at my earliest convenience.

The first phone screen was in Codepen. I was asked to use any framework I wanted (jQuery was loaded by default, but I went with React) to implement a very basic frontend component. The task itself was easy, but they were looking for how I might make it reusable. It was not conversational or collaborative; you could ask questions, but you had to accomplish the task as fast as possible.

I moved to a second phone screen, which was on CoderPad. The task was to implement a modal that passed some tests. This was conversational, and they even said I could Google things. The task is easy enough and does not require Google. You should know all your basics of JavaScript and be able to implement every new feature without hesitation.

If I could do it over, I would work faster, as the requirements of the second interview were iterative, and it was unclear how much they expected me to accomplish within the timeframe. Both interviews went well, so it's hard to say what rubric they docked me on. I received the rejection email two days later with no feedback on why.

Code basic HTML/CSS/JS component on CoderPad.