I got in touch with Simplestream through a recruiter and had an interview with the Head of Development real quick. Very shortly after the interview I heard I was invited to do a coding challenge, which was 1-2 hours max.
The challenge even if done bad, without documentation and tests was not possible in under 2 hours. I spend half a day on the challenge and got great feedback. Besides some personal preferences and some minor untidiness I was invited to have a meeting with another colleague and the CEO.
After the first colleague I was waiting in the call for the CEO to arrive. After 1 hour and 15 minutes I reached out to the recruiter. Had to hop back in the call later but again no CEO.
I then heard they couldn't get a hold of him, and the day after suddenly I hear that the person I spoke with was questioning my technical skill set and my knowledge of Laravel.
Interesting because he didn't ask me anything technical and the Head of Development had already spoken to me twice.
After that I replied to the recruiter and the last thing I heard was that they were looking for someone with more specific experience in this case on Unit testing and Docker.
The funny thing is, Unit testing is something I do every day and Docker was listed in the job spec as "Nice to have experience with but you can learn this on the job".
Something else happened here and they were simply not being honest about it. Being dropped because someone who only asked about how I deal with certain situations thinks I'm not good enough as a developer even though I've already been through their coding challenge and was pushed forward by the Head of Development.
