1. Take-home assignment to implement a REST API with SSE capabilities. They seemed to ding me for having different response bodies than they were expecting, even though the instructions were ambiguous.

2. During the on-site, they grilled me about garbage collection in Go which I never claimed to have any knowledge about... I am a Python/JavaScript engineer.

3. Then they asked me to set up a database integration for my take-home project. Since that's not something I do very often and I usually use a different language/framework for backend stuff, that led to a lot of docs reading and some debugging, which also seemed to reflect badly on me (unfair, I felt).

All in all, it seemed like they didn't do any research into my skillset before they interviewed me and asking me to do a database integration in an unfamiliar environment did not seem like a good metric for judging my practical skills as a developer. It felt like a waste of time.

Explain how garbage collection works in Go.

Add a feature to your take-home project, such as database integration.