30 min manager meeting, then a weekend code assignment. They liked the code and wanted to proceed.

Then would have had a 4-panel interview, a technical grilling of sorts, but didn’t go there because the original New Relic recruiter (which somehow is different from the one that actually got involved during the code tests) was overstating the comp for the role from the get-go.

Really not cool to waste someone's time and falsify the comp at the onset to get me interested and do the code challenge, then drop the fact the comp wasn’t what I was initially offered by the first recruiter. So yeah, I give New Relic a thumbs down after that experience.

Code a 5-connection-limited server listening on port 4000 to write a deduplicated list to a text file with a focus on high throughput.