The coding challenge they gave was easily 8 to 12 of work before even being considered for a phone screen. In my opinion this is an inappropriate amount of time to demand of anybody so early on in the hiring process, even when they claim that it would "only" take 4 hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Re-implement Centipede on an arcade CPU emulator, reverse polish notation UNIX calculator
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Roon Labs in Nov 2020
Interview
A recruiter approached me about the position, then she sent my CV to the company and we started the process, which is:
CTO interview, Tech interview, Team interview (kind of a behavioral step).
The process is kind of tiring, the CTO interview took 2 and a half hours, it was not boring, but it is a lot of time.
The decision was fast, and I got to the next step, the tech interview.
The tech interview took almost 3 hours, so exhaustive, even more given that most of the questions have already been asked in the CTO step.
After going throw the steps the only thing I got was a "No" as an answer, then I asked for clarification, what could be better, which aspect I could be better, and I did not even get an answer, that is a lack of respect.
Of course, they can choose whoever they want, but after taking almost a day of time (adding the hours spent in all steps) the least they could do is answer my question saying something like:
"We cannot get too much in details but we expected stronger tech skills for this position"
"We thought that it was not a good culture fit"
Interview questions [7]
Question 1
What is the difference between a virtual machine and a container?
