Passed the phone screening easily. The next phase involved a live coding challenge.

According to the interviewers, after the coding challenge, there would be a virtual onsite, which would involve about four more interviews.

The coding challenge required a surprising amount of code given the time limit (75 minutes, ~130 lines of code). Some of the requirements would not be told to you until after you completed a basic program, but these could easily have been mentioned at the beginning to streamline the process.

I spent about an hour of the time making sure the program worked very well, with exception handling, threading, and clean design. I took my time because there was no indication a "part two" was coming. By the time I got it, there wasn't enough time to fully finish it.

It felt like a waste of time because of this. It would have been straightforward to finish if I knew a "part two" was to be expected, but I spent so much time making my solution high quality because I was under the impression there was only one problem to solve.

It seems they were more interested in coding as fast as possible and seeing how the interviewee handles a "gotcha," instead of focusing on quality and performance of code.

Design a chat server using sockets that can accept multiple client connections via telnet.