The phone screen was pretty pleasant, other than the part where I was asked if I went to college immediately after high school and grad school immediately after college, or if I took time off. I got the sense I was being asked "how old are you?"

The online test is a massive invasion of privacy. They use ProctorU to proctor it. You have to let them watch you on your webcam the whole time (4 hours!), show them your ID, pan across your apartment, and give them remote access to your computer. There's absolutely no reason for this. Just give a 90-minute Hackerrank test like normal companies do.

It also took the proctors (they were horribly disorganized and kept switching proctors) half an hour to get the test started, and that counted against my 4-hour time limit. The first 10 minutes after that, my exam kept getting interrupted by the proctors. I would have to wait a minute or two for the proctor to reset the exam and refresh the page. This must have happened 5 or 6 times. Then the first part of the test is just filling out some bio information, including some irrelevant stuff like "what was your GRE score?" Really shows a lack of trust to set up a system like this. If you're not going to do Hackerrank, just do a Skype interview where you code in a shared document.

They also asked me to take a psych/IQ test before the online test. I'm trying to apply to software jobs, not do SAT-like analogy questions for half an hour.

Overall a pretty lousy interview experience, mostly their horrible, invasive system for the online test. Oh well, I don't expect to apply here again anyway.

Did you go to college immediately after high school, or did you take time off?