A recruiter reached out. The process involved an HR screening interview, a take-home assignment, and an on-site interview.

The take-home assignment was pretty fun but very time-consuming. The on-site consisted of a follow-up to the assignment where an extra feature needed to be built, a values interview, and then a technical deep dive.

The interview experience was great and practical until the follow-up to the assignment. I was initially expecting only about 5-10 minutes to explain my implementation and architecture, followed by the new feature coding. However, this explanation ended up taking the majority of the time, with them asking follow-up questions and specific cases about the technology I was using.

The setup to add the extended assignment and explanation took some time, and in the end, I was only given 8 minutes. I didn't have time to plan initially and panicked trying to finish. Additionally, I wasn't given any time to ask questions and find out more about the team. I felt that the interview wasn't a great judge of a candidate's front-end skills and that their time management was poor.

Overall, I did enjoy the interview experience at Brex. It's been a while, so it was good for practice and got me back into interviewing.

Take-home assignment and follow-up.