Recruiter Call Code Challenge Phone Interview Onsite F2F

The recruiter call was nothing special. I have to say, the recruiter was a little unorganized. I had to keep emailing him to ask for feedback and to get the process moving.

The code challenge was to present data from a third-party API call.

The phone interview went okay. The person on the other side pasted some JavaScript questions and asked me for the output (hoisting, ES6, etc.). There was no feedback from him, and he wasn't very friendly. However, I answered all of them correctly, so I got a F2F.

The F2F was completely hostile. There were four people in the room with my PC connected to a projector. The question was to present some data after filtering data from a third-party API call. I started working, but every few minutes or seconds, one guy on the panel kept messing with my logic, as if he wanted me to fail. I kept pushing past his comments and worked on my code. By the end of 45 minutes, my code was working. After a 15-minute break, there was another 45 minutes with that rude guy judging me again. I could see that he had no respect for his colleagues, either. Then, I carried on with 1-on-1s with the product manager and manager. I could tell right away something was wrong, as they did not ask me any questions and kept asking if I had any questions.

After one week, I had to reach out to them only to hear I was rejected.

Here are a few things from my side:

• The process was unwelcoming and overwhelming.
• Why would you put a person on the hiring committee who is so unfriendly?
• Please don't waste my time for hours if you're not interested in me.
• Stop people in their tracks while they are solving a question.
• Rude comments and gestures will only divert your candidates.

Even if I were offered a job, I wasn't feeling good about going to work there.

JavaScript ES6 (let, const, hoisting), Promises, AJAX GET, CSS

Program to fetch a 3rd-party API and present it in a slider.