The whole process was pretty standard, but the way that the rejection was handled was just disrespectful. I passed the recruiter screen and hiring manager screen easily enough, there was nothing out of place there. I was asked to do a take home assignment - read in an API data stream in one service, have another service perform some operations on it.

I made a simple Flask API app for the operations, finished it all in a couple of hours and turned it in. The recruiter said I would hear back by Monday at the absolute latest about setting up a code review interview. Monday rolls around, and there's nothing. Tuesday morning I reach out asking for updates. Nothing. Tuesday night just before midnight, my access to the take home assignment was revoked.

Wednesday morning I receive a form rejection email. I don't mind being rejected, but if you're rejecting in-progress candidates you can at least give them a personal email with an actual reason. It's one thing to receive a form rejection from the get go, it's another to have interacted with several people, have had pleasant conversations, and then be tossed aside.

Read in a data stream and persist it to disk in one service, and in another service perform some operations on that data.