A recruiter contacted me and requested my resume. The hiring manager followed up with a 30-minute phone screen and a take-home test. An onsite interview was offered at that time, before the take-home test had been graded. The onsite was scheduled for a couple of weeks later and took about 4 hours in total.

After the onsite, the hiring manager contacted me several times to set up a phone call. After a few days of phone tag, I was informed there was no longer a job or an offer.

I rated the process as "Neutral" because there was very minimal communication and little time given for my own questions to be asked and answered. Collectively, I had perhaps five minutes to ask my own questions (other than during whiteboarding, where all questions were related to the problem at hand).

On the positive side, the team members who interviewed me were all easy to get along with and respectful/friendly. However, due to the duration and lack of time for my own questions, the process as a whole felt much more like an examination than a two-way interview.

Take-home test:

Involve gathering, parsing, and other manipulation of data from a couple API endpoints.

Architect a system for parsing and storing a stream of events using AWS. What changes would you make given a certain set of constraints? (e.g. client needs random access to the stored data, optimize for this use case.)