A connection linked me up with a recruiter. The whole process took about two months.

It started with an initial phone screen, followed by a coding challenge. I interviewed in person at a branch office, then they flew me out for an on-site interview.

They flew me all the way out from the Midwest for a 40-minute interview, during which the interviewer was 10 minutes late. We ran out of time halfway through me answering one of the questions, which I guess is why I didn't get the internship.

It kind of sucks because I was really on track to answer it correctly, but it's their loss. I did like the free trip, though.

If you were building a search tool and wanted search results to pop up as you typed, but the server call was taxing, write a function that gets called on every keydown but calls the server when the user stops typing for 400ms.