A recruiter from Hired.com reached out to me prior to Christmas week requesting an interview.

I scheduled an interview before the Christmas break and, 15 minutes before the hour, received an email from the recruiter stating that she was sick and would resume the interview following the holidays.

The initial HR interview occurred at the start of the new year and led to an open-ended front-end coding challenge with up to a week to complete.

I completed the challenge and was essentially ghosted for a week. I reached out and was ghosted for a few more days until receiving a final email stating, "the team chose not to move forward with your candidacy."

However, since they encourage an environment of feedback, I let her know and they will get back to me.

I replied immediately requesting feedback and never got an acknowledgement response nor any feedback afterwards.

Overall, the experience seemed to be a waste of time.

Use the Giphy API to create a web app that allows users to search for GIFs and favorite them.

There should be a page to list the GIFs and a page to list the favorite GIFs.

The project was open-ended, as the requirements stated above were all that I received. There were no framework requirements, nor any guidance on where to focus or how you would be graded.

That being said, I spent a lot of time on UI, given the company's interface is very design-oriented, but clearly, that didn't interest them.