Got an initial call with HR, usual HR stuff. Then about 2 weeks later got the second interview that would be 1 hour for what they call the "Life Story" and 1 hour for a technical interview. The "Life Story" was kind of weird. The HR person was obviously faking interest in whatever I was saying and didn't really ask much to guide the conversation. No notes were taken, we finished early at 30 minutes or so. Waited for the technical interview. The technical part was with coderpad.io, which was pretty nice, because you can compile and run your code on the fly. The problem was a list of comma separated strings, and you had to output the first "column" of each string ordered descending by another column and then ascending by yet another column. I asked if he wanted me to show any specific way of solving this, but he said that no, to just solve it however I wanted. I finished and asked again for anything else to highlight, or talk about the code or of why I solved it like that, but no. He just checked the output was the same. When I started asking questions, it seems like he was not really too much into answering them. So that was it. Two weeks later I sent an email asking for an update. I got a reply saying I would get a reply in two days. When I got that reply it said that no, but to keep applying to other jobs, no real reason why. I have no idea how that simple exercise which I solved in ~15 minutes disqualified me. No feedback and no direction in what is being evaluated. I guess they hire more with "gut feeling" than anything else, and do coding exercises as a way to fool themselves that they are being objective. In their benefit, it is slightly more objective than most.