The worst interview experience I ever had.

The recruiter reached out to me for this position. After the recruiter call, I had one hiring manager call. A couple of days later, I had to follow up and was responded to within a minute about the next steps: a take-home code review.

The take-home assignment is a complete waste of your time. They allow you 24 hours, and even if you followed all good code review practices, you have no idea what the interviewer is expecting.

Then comes the most frustrating part. Until this time, the recruiter was very responsive and provided detailed answers to queries. But after this round, there was no response, even after I had followed up twice. I was ghosted without even a result.

At least in normal interviews, you can get a sense of whether the interviewer was happy with you. Giving a take-home test and wasting 3-4 hours on their buggy code is useless.

How would you debug if a service starts delaying responses suddenly?