HR Phone Screen Technical Phone Screen CoderPad

Pretty lame in general because the first two calls were very bullish about the role and my specific background fit. Then we got to the CoderPad session.

It was a basic question, but it was explained very poorly regarding whether and which existing packages could be used, or which needed to be written from scratch. The call quality was also difficult.

Overall, it was challenging, but I answered the question fine after figuring out what they wanted. I had a few bugs in the initial solution which required some printouts. However, given all the specifics and demonstrable code that was easily shown in my background, to so quickly (one day) discount a 30-minute "mickey mouse" coding session seems pretty lame.

If you don't have 100% coverage of every possible stupid question you will be asked, or stumble just a bit with CoderPad, they'll cut you loose, even if you have worked the exact role they are hiring for at another company.

One of the silly questions about doing something that you'll never do in the real world.