Call with HR, then a take home technical challenge. HR was excellent throughout the entire process, however the same cannot be said of whoever handled my application on the tech side. The technical challenge was straight forward, bonus points and all - so I was pretty confident I'd be getting an offer.
Lo-and-behold I hear from HR that I got rejected. I asked why and it took HR some digging to get the response "over architected" and "did not run".
Curious, I downloaded the solution I sent and it ran perfectly fine. It seems like their team was unable to run my file, so they just gave up? I asked what issue they encountered trying to run my file and never heard back.
Additionally, given no technical guidance I would assume a generous amount of flexibility for the solution given the lack of context. Or, if the expectation is for the solution to be of a certain style, then set the context before the test. Hoping developers guess the appropriate level of granularity that you expect, is no way to conduct an interview.
I was pretty excited at the prospect of working at Unata before the interview, however after experiencing this level of communication from the dev side I'll be staying clear in the future.
I received two other offers for the same role from other companies the very same week.
