• Unusually high number of phone chats (including and beyond a typical tech screen).

• Take-home programming test, which encouraged writing solutions "as if they were production code." My test had two questions and took me about a day and a half of worktime (approx. 12 hours) total.

• Waited and kept in touch with their HR for feedback on my test, but did not receive anything until a full week later.

• Finally, was told that my application was declined, with "some concerns" about my code quality. I asked for clarification on those concerns but never received any. (In previous jobs I have been praised for my code quality, so I have no clue what Bungie's concerns might have been.)

• During the interview process, I was told that the jobs they post online are not an accurate reflection of what they are hiring for -- and specifically, that they make more postings than there are open positions in the office. HR seemed to consider this a tactic for attracting applications, but I would call it "lying."

(As a take-home programming challenge,) write code that will validate a "Boggle" board i.e. given a virtual board (collection of letters) and a dictionary, find words in the virtual board.