I had a couple of recruiter calls and personality/culture fit interviews, followed by a coding challenge supervised by one engineer. After the coding challenge, I was to present to a four-person panel of engineers.

They asked me to build too much in too short of a timeframe.

I needed to create:

• A stock ticker with websockets
• Fetching sets of data from a phony API
• Multiple stock portfolios so the data needed to update based on a dropdown

It also needed to be styled to match a bad screenshot mock.

I had about an hour to do so after the initial talks with the screener, all in vanilla JS.

Then, I had to present what I was able to get done to a team of honestly pretty rude engineers.

To top it off, the web-based IDE I had to use was buggy.

It was a terrible experience.