The take home assignment for this position consisted of completing a development plan, architecture documentation + diagrams for both frontend and backend systems, including database relationships and component architecture, plus a working prototype of the application. You are then asked to present your full feature plan as well as the prototype to a team of engineers with the director of engineering and team lead present. I was given 5 days to complete this. Despite the amount of work put in in such a short amount of time, I was not given any feedback on my work, rather that they just did not see enough to move forward. I struggle to understand what the expectations are for such a massive assignment, given other responsibilities and obligations. I get the sense that most of the team is out of touch with the recent job market, and must be unaware that most if not all engineers are applying to hundreds of jobs, and committing to projects like these only to be plainly rejected without feedback is just not worth the opportunity cost. During the interview process the team mentioned they had been struggling to hire people that they felt could integrate well with the team; respectfully, I think maybe there's a chance that the issue is internal. 1.Recruiter phone screen 2. non technical conversation (1hr) 3. another non technical conversation (1hr) 4. Take home project (5 days) 5. panel interview (1.5 hours)

The interview process was pretty straightforward: - Interview with the hiring manager - interview with one of the founders - take home project - looks different based on front end, backend, or full stack - interview with two of the more tenured engineers on the take home project - decision: didn't get an offer extremely wonderful team of engineers and their director of engineering is really personable. Overall the vibes of the company seem great and even though we got to the end and I didn't get an offer, I got the sense that they were very genuine and it would have been great to work there.