I was contacted through LinkedIn, and after reviewing the job description, it seemed interesting. I then completed the initial telephone screening, which also went well.

The whole process was explained, which was helpful. The recruiter started the setup of the first technical interview, which made me feel a little leery.

There were some communication problems, but overall the process was quick.

The technical interview itself went okay. I believe it was with a random engineer at Chewy, so there wasn't much context with the specific role.

Where it went poorly, however, was the coding exercise. Keep in mind this is for a UX engineer, and the interviewer said there would be no HTML or CSS involved, which puzzled me. Regardless,

I think the problems presented weren't extremely difficult for someone with a computer science degree, but they weren't really applicable to a UX engineer and were kind of 'code tricks' in my opinion. The interviewer was helpful throughout and at least enjoyable to talk with.

In the end, I didn't think it was an accurate way to evaluate a UX engineer overall, but it is what it is.

They have 10 qualities they value at Chewy, and I was asked to give an example past experience that matched each one.