I submitted my resume on the same day. A few hours later, I received an email from them with an invitation to a 45-minute, 10-question assessment. They called it C++, but it was in fact a horrible K&R poor dialect with a Commodore VIC-20 smell and a mix of smells from more modern C. The potential answers were weirdly formulated, probably test questions from the 80s, high school level or something. It took me 5 minutes. They could not possibly test more than uninitialized local variables or iterating past size - 1. Their for loops were like for(int i = 0; i <= nSize; i++) – notice the blasphemy: i++ instead of the canonical/logical ++i. Well, anyway, 5 minutes later (after completion), I was told that they would not go any further with my application. I thanked them very much and politely advised them to not send stupid/unsafe/C code like that into space. Their answer was that I can reapply in 18 months after taking some basic computer science classes.

The test was a modest, entry-level high school C set of 3-5 line questions, all in almost K&R style. It was meant to test if you knew that local variables are not initialized, to see if a for loop goes beyond nSize - 1, that given a pointer you can access it using an array, and other things of this sort.

Responses were automatically graded (just like the DMV office), and the so-called "technical" recruiter was apparently computer illiterate.