I applied online. The process took a week.

The process was a recruiter screening over Zoom. After that, I got invited to a live coding interview with engineers. I had read Glassdoor reviews and found them odd, thinking that, as a well-seasoned Senior Frontend Engineer working at Big Tech, nothing could go wrong. Well, everything was fine and everyone was nice. Then I received a huge task and a link to a web IDE. I started coding, and the IDE did not recognise the code I wrote. I fiddled around, saw it did not work, and asked the interviewers what was wrong. They sat in silence, tried to fix it, and eventually confirmed that it did not work on their side either and couldn't make it work. They couldn't fix it. We sat for 45 minutes, going back and forth trying to make it run. Nothing helped. In the last 10 minutes, one of them told me to set up a new environment on my local machine. I knew the job was gone at this point. Of course, we didn't set up anything, and they awkwardly asked if I had any questions at the end. We were sitting there for 45 minutes and didn't even start coding. They clearly didn't check the IDE beforehand and didn't try to build the thing themselves to see if it worked, and everyone was as surprised as I was. Do you think I got a second chance or at least an apology? No. I wasted time for calls and getting prepped, wasted another hour during the day for that disaster, and got rejected with a generic message without any feedback and based on nothing. This was one of the worst experiences I have had in my entire career. It was very disrespectful, and I would have never expected such a thing would happen with such a well-known company. If you think you are a master of all the web development skills and that people are overreacting here, I was the same—go figure it out yourself.

It was a live coding interview with nothing irrelevant for the position. However, the scope of the task was huge for the given time. I signed the NDA, just like anyone who was interviewed, and I can't share details.