I had a phone screen with a recruiter, and they gave me a project. I asked a couple of questions about implementations, but HR didn't understand the tech aspects. So, HR just copy-pasted requirements that didn't make much sense. It took me quite a while to meet all their "strange" requirements. I handed in the project, and they got back to me in two months, telling me they were still reviewing. Then I had a call with the CTO. During the call, the CTO didn't even know what I had done in the project and didn't ask anything about the work and effort I spent on it. He asked me a couple of behavioral questions. A few weeks later, they told me they didn't have a need for my skill set.

Almost two months' worth of time were wasted on this interview process. They could have just told me at the very beginning that they didn't need people. I guess they just throw people into the process, give you a project with a bunch of weird requirements, and finally, don't even look at it. A complete waste of time.

The project is to design a program to identify whether a parking spot is occupied. You need to read from video streams and make predictions. It's a pretty standard CV program, but there are a bunch of engineering "nonsense" requirements.

For example, you have to submit this as a Docker container with a very strange format, although everything could be packaged in a RESTful service in a compact and clean way. Anyway, it was a waste of time.