1. First interview with HR.

2. Interview with Line Manager - general description on the company and the different teams. No details on the role.

3. Take-home assignment. Build an application given a JSON and a JPEG. The candidate has to observe Big O notation and follow the incomplete and non-minute provided design. Can use frameworks (React) or go for plain JS/TS (the latter being my case). They claim a senior can complete it in less than 10 hours, but they give you 20 to complete it. I did it over the weekend and a couple of afternoons.

4. Technical interview. I was advised we would review my code, but it turned out to be live coding.

My impression on the whole process:

• There was absolutely no interest in asking the candidate for their past experiences, nor about web development, just non-realistic use case questions. When I challenged the interviewers about the actual applicability of the questions in real-life scenarios, they dodged the question.
• I was not advised at all that there would be live coding challenges. I told this to the interviewers at the beginning of the interview, but they did not care, nor adapt to the circumstances. This was very frustrating, as I had not prepared for this and it jeopardized the entire work that I had submitted and took me 4 afternoons to complete.
• There was not a single question about the work that I submitted.
• Felt that the interviewers, two members of the dev team, were not interested in knowing my skills as a developer but rather did with the motions and followed a script without questioning/adapting it to find the best candidates.
• Eventually, after HR had ghosted me for 3 weeks on account of being on vacation, and upon demanding feedback, I received feedback claiming that my code was not senior enough, since it was not pixel-perfect (a hard achievement without a Figma / InVision or PS file, and just a JPEG) and I had introduced code duplication. I would have welcomed an opportunity to challenge this, but I never got any.

Definitely a waste of the candidate's time. Such a cumbersome, broken process should discourage candidates from applying.

1. Technical interviews are about nonsensical questions pulled from the internet.
2. There are no questions about the work submitted.
3. There are no questions about front-end development whatsoever.