The hiring manager reached out to me about the role and referred me to a recruiter after we discussed my experience and skills. The recruiter discussed salary expectations and that there would be a take-home programming assessment.

Communicating with the recruiter was difficult due to ambiguous language and email delivery problems on their end. Overall, it took a lot of effort to get the information I needed from them.

The take-home assessment was a "spec" to add certain behaviors to the provided HTML extracted from the product. The five-page spec was sprawling and poorly organized, and didn't provide instructions for submission. The assessment materials were outdated (e.g., jQuery 1.x) and set up in a way that required a lot of effort to run (e.g., cross-domain issues, non-CORS API, problems with the provided CSS).

I was motivated to write this review after waiting two weeks for an update only to have the recruiter give me the run-around. They suggested setting up a call later in the week to personally give me a blanket statement about why I didn't get picked.

In retrospect, there were a lot of red flags.

Highlights from the assessment:

• Write a widget/stats card using HTML/JS/CSS that shows up when hovering over a user’s screen name.
• We are looking for a demonstration that you can develop to a spec and design, as well as write readable and modular code.
• You can use any framework of your choice or vanilla JavaScript. We are mostly interested in seeing clean code that’s readable, modular, and demonstrates a grasp of MVC.