Applied online.

Recruiter called to discuss next steps.

I was given a take-home exercise and one week to finish it.

Submitted a project and got feedback within two weeks.

I was given a take-home project to implement a weather app. The assignment required using an API that was years old and had been deprecated long ago, necessitating a workaround.

The task was to make a call to the weather API and display data for the current location. Two weeks later, I received a rejection with rude feedback and strange suggestions for implementation.

For reference, I had submitted similar architecture proposals to five other companies, all of which were well-received. Klarna seemed to be an outlier, so I don't feel bad about the rejection.

Suggestion: Try to implement things using the MVC pattern, as the team seemed interested in that approach. If you aim for better companies, use this experience as a launchpad, as current employees don't seem happy there anyway.