I was given a choice between an initial phone technical interview or a 4-5 hour take-home project. I chose the take-home project because with a phone interview you never know what random tricky question they'll throw your way. I put in a bunch of hours over a week into the project and came up with a decent implementation. Then after I submitted I didn't hear anything back for two weeks. When I pinged the recruiter I got a short "we have decided to not move forward." I felt confused and somewhat offended that that's all I got in response after putting in all that time. I know I did a good job on the project so it's perplexing. I feel like I at least deserved to be able to explain the code to the engineer that did the code review.

1. Take home project 2. Extending take home project in a remote call with a senior dev 3. Extending take home project in a second remote call with two senior devs 4. Interview facecam call with hiring manager Overall, loved that I didn't have to do whiteboard questions or solve ANY weird leetcode problems.