I was approached by Innoscripta on Linkedin for a senior full-stack position, I was genuinely excited at first. Unfortunately, the interview process turned out to be unnecessarily long and disrespectful.
It started with a 45-minute recruiter call that already included a few technical questions. Then I was assigned a five-day take-home case study to build a full-stack Laravel/React application (weekend days included which I didn't mind). After submitting that and being told I passed, I went through a two-hour live coding session where I built another full-stack app. Since the time wasn’t enough but the guy liked what I've done in terms of code quality, I was asked to complete the remaining part offline, which took additional hours.
I passed that stage too and proceeded to what I was told would be a casual "get-to-know-you" chat by the recruiter. It turned into another one-hour technical interview that focused only on the backend(everything from design patterns to architecture to laravel specific questions), after which I was asked to schedule yet another session for the frontend.
Despite being told I’d passed every stage, two days before the next scheduled interview I received a generic rejection email and the meeting was canceled without any explanation or feedback.
For a company that reached out to me directly, this was extremely disappointing and disrespectful. The process required an unreasonable amount of unpaid time and effort, only to end abruptly without courtesy or transparency.
If you’re a developer considering applying here, be aware that the interview process is extensive, time-consuming and not very respectful of candidates’ time, plus like you, I read these other reviews but still ignored.
