I had a call with a recruiter who showed interest and sent a link to attempt an online coding assessment. I spent almost 2 hours and 20 minutes to get it right.

To be fair, those hours were the most wasteful hours of my life. This was not because I lacked enthusiasm to complete the assessment or interest in the job opportunity itself, but because of what happened afterward.

As many have already said, I received no response from the recruiter. I emailed the recruiter after a week, and still, there was no response.

I am an experienced software developer who has conducted interviews myself. The lack of respect for people who spend time in the process is truly infuriating. I can understand that you receive a lot of applications, but this is no way to treat a senior developer applying for jobs at the company.

Same JSON parsing question asked to others who have gone through this process earlier.