I applied for the role through internal referral. Currently I am holding a senior position at a FAANG company.

I had to learn Python in order for the coding and I prepared for a week on CodeSignal, which I think is not very efficient. My problem was to build an employee working hour tracking system with promotions and calculate salary. The problem itself is not hard, just needs a lot of typing.

Along the way, I was trying to show how, such as good method names and good sub functions, also incremental debugging through test cases. I almost got through level 3 since I was running the tests one by one. And then I got rejected with a no-reply email.

I think I understood what they are looking for wrong. Maybe they are looking for coding speed? I am a bit surprised with all the agents available, that coding velocity is used as a screening method to shred very experienced engineers. I couldn't make much sense of this process.