Wasting applicants' time:

They required applicants to complete a code challenge before submitting the application. The final question on the application included an encoded URL. When you visit the URL, it loads instructions to complete a 4-step coding challenge.

First step is to visit another URL and then write a script to find all the HTML tags with data attributes that match a specific pattern, then grab the value attributes in order to make another URL.

Then visit the new URL, where you should see a word. The next step is to make a code sandbox application with React that should make a fetch request to the previous URL to fetch the word, and then render the word letter by letter to create a "typewriter" effect. I completed the challenge and was rejected without any interview a few days later. I would not bother applying unless you think this coding scavenger hunt sounds really fun and you don't care if you get an interview.

The application included at least 4 behavioral questions asking you to show how you were a truly exceptional candidate. I'm pretty sure they decided I wasn't exceptional enough without examining the coding challenge. It's just offensive that they choose to waste applicants' time with coding challenges before they do any pre-screening. They could easily move this coding challenge to after they conduct an initial screening.

Please outline a list of websites you have worked on and indicate what CMS or other technologies you used to build each site.

Please decode the text below. Upon decoding, you will be taken to a URL with further instructions on completing the challenge.

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