Interview with New Relic is the worst in all of my job search history in my life. It is surprising how such a popular company in the industry is so highly unethical and careless about other people's time.

Chronologically, the whole process looked like this:

• I applied via a recruiter and was invited to a screening interview at the recruiter's office on Monday.
• The next day after the interview (Tuesday), the recruiter told me that they wanted to invite me to an on-site interview on Friday.
• On Wednesday morning, I received a take-home project and had 2 days (till Thursday evening) to finish the project and upload it to my GitHub account.
• The same day, I was asked by the recruiter if we could reschedule our on-site interview to Monday morning next week. Despite that one month ago I already planned a behind-the-wheel driving test on Monday morning, I decided that the interview was more important and rescheduled my driving test for the next available day, which was 5 weeks later. I didn't get any updates on Friday, and the last time I talked with the recruiter on Friday, everything was confirmed regarding the interview on Monday.

Interview day. 30 minutes prior to the interview, I got a call from the recruiter regarding the location of the office, and at that point, everything was okay.

10:30 am - I was in the office of New Relic. I registered, got my badge, and was waiting in the reception for the person who was supposed to interview me. Suddenly, I got a call from the recruiter, and he told me that there was something wrong with my take-home project and the quality of the code, and they did not want to waste my time and decided not to interview me. Really? I mean, did you really check it 1 minute prior to the interview? When I was in your office? When I did a 1.5-hour commute to get there?

It is not about the rejection, and I am not resentful. Maybe I was the worst candidate for them, and I did the project in the most disgusting way in human history. But you could have told me about that at least the day before. Nobody from the company even bothered to come to the reception and tell me what happened; they preferred to tell my recruiter to call me. I just feel cheated because I wasted 1 week of my time preparing for the interview, reading the company blog, testing NR products, rescheduled my exam which I was waiting for almost 1 month, and now have to wait for another month. I don't have enough words to say about how angry I was because of the whole situation.

Don't waste your time with them. They don't value it.

Take-home project: Implement the card game War!