I applied online and was contacted by a software developer. He asked me if I wanted to start the hiring process, which would involve three steps:

• A coding exercise
• A technical phone interview
• An on-site interview

The coding exercise was pretty easy. It was to sort a list of strings in C#. I had never done anything in C#, but I had done a lot in Java. Since the two languages are so similar, the exercise was easy.

Soon after I turned it in, they said I had moved on to the next stage: the phone interview. The questions involved everything from OOP, to JavaScript, to software development lifecycles, to database concepts. As a recent college grad, I knew half of the questions really well. However, since I had no real work experience, I did not know the other half, most of which were the ones involving software development lifecycles.

I got an email a week later saying I was not selected.

The entire process, from application submission to the end of the second interview step, took almost three weeks.

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