The same day that I applied for the job is when a recruiter for MapLarge reached out to me. The phone screen was very enjoyable and I felt that it would be a good fit for me as well as for the company.
The next step was to complete a coding assessment at home during my free time. However, the assessment was a sizable task to create a ASP .NET MVC web application that acted as an FTP server. This should have been a red flag but now I know.
I completed the project and emailed the code back to them after 7 days in which the recruiter had apparently sent me emails about scheduling a 1-1 virtual interview with one of the engineers. I never got the invite so I missed the interview. Turns out that the invite was stuck in her outbox! But this would happen again 2 times over the next few weeks. This should have been red-flag #2.
I had separate interviews with one engineer and another with another engineer. Both of them were just looking over my code as it was the first time he as ever saw it and had me step through random parts of the code. He had nothing constructive to say about the code and it sounds like this was the end.
So you could imagine my surprise when I was told that they wanted to give me another interview this time with 2 engineers at the same time a week later. Again, as with the previous engineer, either guys had seen my project previously so I had to step through it again. They appeared to me more impressed by my code and even provided some constructive feedback about potential concurrency issues.
But in the end, after another week, I got a generic rejection email. I tried to request for feedback but I never got a response (the email might be still stuck in her outbox!). The entire process took 1 month and was a major waste of time.
