After the initial screen with the manager, I was give a take-home challenge, which I submitted after a couple weeks. The challenge was to create a basic web application using PHP, JavaScript and the Expensify API (with no page refreshes), which allows a user to: authenticate to an account, download existing transactions, and create new transactions. Part of the challenge was dealing with an incomplete or ambiguous specification. I had to host the finished solution such as AWS or Heroku. I submitted my solution, but it was rejected because I was told that my solution was over-engineered and that I use single line functions. Most of the feedback I received was nitpicking not about substantial issues. It was mostly about subjective issues like using single-line function, leaving unnecessary comments, etc. It was just a complete waste of my time, where I spent two weeks preparing the simple web application.

First round with a recruiter. Next round is a take-home assignment to build a full web app. Built it out to spec only to be told that data security wasn't ideal. That was pretty out of scope for this sort of project, because they didn't provide shared resources to host something more secure.