Lot's of back-and-forth with the recruiter They brought me in for an hour where I met a manager to discuss the position then sent me to do a homework assignment. I was frankly was not accorded the respect any candidate should have received. I was asked to do a coding assignment that was really straightforward. I was told that I could use any language I liked (the requirements document made that clear) and to focus on performance (jmeter test was included). Like any thing related to development: sometimes things that should just work, don't. This was one of those cases. Without getting into details, the overall assignment took me almost 20 hrs to complete! Even if I had cut that in half by removing weird issues not related to the task at hand, that's 10 hours of my time that had to be sacrificed from other things (and they were). Initially I was told that my day might not work because they had a lot going on. When I showed up for my interview to give my demo the team showed up 10 minutes late (we finally had to get started even though not everyone was present at once). Then we had some AV issues. After 3 slides of my presentation I get peppered with questions and finally a testy "Can we just skip to the code?!" I was supposed to have 3 technical interviewers but got cut to just 1. That's when HR met me to tell me how wonderful the company was; I thought she was just buying time for someone. But, it turned out the interview was over. The best part: They never actually wanted to see my app execute!