1. Technical conversation, discussing front end and back end technologies. 2. Take home application challenge: write a to go app in react, with redux that uses an API written in Go that stores to dos in a PostgreSQL database. 3. Conversation with founder/geschaftsführer, to discuss the company, the product, the direction and really pretentious things about how to be creative and spend time recharging creative energy... 4. Apparently a virtual coffee with various team members.... The week prior I had been rejected from a Front End Engineer position at this company but was rejected and the same day asked to apply again for a Full Stack Engineer position. I was up for it, so I started the process from zero, which was kind of annoying to have to do but ok. I had already delivered a solid front end application a week earlier, so having to discuss general technical things a second time felt goofy. But I went along with it and was immediately on to step 2. I was tasked with creating a full stack react to do app with Redux, a Go backend and a postgres DB. I had never written or even seen Go code before that assignment, but I am very quick to pick up new technologies and in just two days I delivered a full featured app complete with Go server/API which allowed for all the CRUD operations as well as batch deleting of to dos handled nicely with a cmd-click todo highlighting mechanic. In addition, knowing that the company was exploring a shift toward aws cloud technologies I decided to go one step further and use amazon Aurora for my DB and I hosted the Go server on an EC2 instance, just to show that I know what I'm doing. Very quickly I received the "you've convinced us of your skills" and are on to the next round email and I was on to step 3, which I never got to my previous time (see my other interview review for Front End Engineer). Step 3 a conversation with the founder about the company/product/general pretentious irrelevant subjects. The founder never showed up. After waiting 5 minutes I replied to the generic meeting scheduler email and shortly thereafter the founder reached out and told me he had my email address wrong... I don't know why he was typing my email address at all since they use an automated system for everything else. He was the third person from the company to even email me so, whatever... we scheduled for the next day. The conversation was what you'd expect plus a little extra "we're real people who enjoy life when we're not working" nonsense. Stuff about recharging creative energy etc... This stuff comes off as incredibly pretentious and even a little condescending... I too am a human. I also like doing things that aren't work. It's unclear the aim with this part of the conversation. To weed out the odd person who says they only want to work and that they don't value downtime... Or that they despise work altogether and just can't wait for the weekend. I don't know, but they need to rethink step 3. It was pretty clumsy. At the end of this meeting I was told that step 4, a virtual coffee with some team members would be scheduled right away... That was three weeks ago. And it's been nothing but silence since. Now that's fine with me. After all the hoops the put me through and the way I handled them, to be treated with silence at the end of that, truly I would be very happy to reject any offer they gave me. Nonetheless I've since accepted an offer from a company with a much nicer hiring process. My recommendation: don't apply at loopline.
