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I applied for a web dev position there after a very enthusiastic recommendation of me from a bootcamp cohort colleague. When I interacted with their recruiters,

I applied for a web dev position there after a very enthusiastic recommendation of me from a bootcamp cohort colleague. When I interacted with their recruiters, they were very polite. I was given a few days to complete a take-home challenge, and went above-and-beyond to include persistence and real-time functionality. Weeks would go by, and when I would inquire about the status of my application, I would be told nobody got a chance to look at my code/application. I don't blame the recruiters, but it does seem like your suspicion about the place being "brutally chaotic" is spot-on. My colleague left after a few short months to work as a freelancer.

headcanon 7y ago
I interviewed for a backend position there, and they got back to me with an onsite request within hours after submitting the take-home. Such a disparity in interview experiences can happen often in large high-growth companies like this one. It might have helped in my case that the team I was interviewing for was small.
jahlove 7y ago
Those take-home tests are bullshit. You put all that work in it for free, and they can't be bothered to follow up. Maddening.
- harry8 7y ago
  They'd be fine if employers paid for the time. Then they waste your resource as their expense. Right now they have no incentive at all to treat applicants resource with any respect. So you get this, which is utter and total contempt. Failing to look at it is actually fraud or theft. The deal they strike is you do this unpaid work to help us hire you. If they don't look at it they have broken that deal and should face consequences.