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It’s been ten years and I am still mad at Facebook. Post phone interview on Friday I was given a code challenge to complete over the weekend. When I submitted i

by donatj 4y ago

It’s been ten years and I am still mad at Facebook. Post phone interview on Friday I was given a code challenge to complete over the weekend. When I submitted it on Monday I received a response immediately “The team has reviewed your resume and decided to not move forward. We will not be reviewing your code challenge. Feel free to apply again in one year.” I spent my whole weekend on it, it was shined and buffed and you could have at least glanced at it. Or at the very least lied to me.

dmos62 4y ago
> Or at the very least lied to me. It sucks that they requested work from you that was not necessary, but would you really prefer that they lied about it? I'd say they mismanaged the situation, but at least were honest about it.
- donatj 4y ago
  Absolutely. If they had told me that the code was total garbage in a snide tone followed by derogatory remarks about my mother, I would be over it by now. I am a very forgiving person. Having me do two days of work and immediately throwing it in the trash without even glancing at it is the far worse insult.
hppb 4y ago
That just sounds like an attempt to save both of you time (elapsed time, from interview to offer, not time spent) in case your phone interview did do well. After the phone interview, somebody needs to write it up, a hiring committee needs to look at it, and then they can decide whether to move forward or not. If they give you the challenge after that it's easily another week. Frankly I am surprised they gave you a full response on Monday after a phone interview Friday, that's actually quite fast given all the steps and people involved.
- donatj 4y ago
  I went and looked up the emails. I submitted my code challenge at 9:45pm on Sunday central time and received the response at 2:18am Monday. Couple hours, and a strange time to get a response. I suspect the recruiter was not US based. Given that the job was supposed to be west coast based, I have to imagine they’d made their decision on Friday.
  - cvhashim 4y ago
    Probably an auto rejection.
- darkerside 4y ago
  Would've been courteous to get a decision back to the candidate on Friday. Somebody didn't care enough.
collyw 4y ago
I have been burned like that before.One time it was probably a days worth of work, but split over evenings of my free time took longer, so I didn't finish it. Another time it was as if some junior developer was circle jerking. Whining about the most trivial things (a couple of whitespace errors in Pylint, not returning JSON when they had requested a "page without styling", Not adding a setup.py, when they didn't ask for it. )
teeray 4y ago
> I spent my whole weekend on it, it was shined and buffed and you could have at least glanced at it. Or at the very least lied to me. This is why coding challenges are an immediate dealbreaker for me these days. If I’m going to do a project to showcase my skills, you can be sure I’m going to put my all into it. Getting ghosted after that is insulting beyond words. Put me in an interview setting and I at least know that it’s time-boxed and the interviewer is losing just as much time as I am.

by donatj 4y ago

dmos62 4y ago

> Or at the very least lied to me. It sucks that they requested work from you that was not necessary, but would you really prefer that they lied about it? I'd say they mismanaged the situation, but at least were honest about it.

donatj 4y ago
Absolutely. If they had told me that the code was total garbage in a snide tone followed by derogatory remarks about my mother, I would be over it by now. I am a very forgiving person. Having me do two days of work and immediately throwing it in the trash without even glancing at it is the far worse insult.

hppb 4y ago

That just sounds like an attempt to save both of you time (elapsed time, from interview to offer, not time spent) in case your phone interview did do well. After the phone interview, somebody needs to write it up, a hiring committee needs to look at it, and then they can decide whether to move forward or not. If they give you the challenge after that it's easily another week. Frankly I am surprised they gave you a full response on Monday after a phone interview Friday, that's actually quite fast given all the steps and people involved.

donatj 4y ago
I went and looked up the emails. I submitted my code challenge at 9:45pm on Sunday central time and received the response at 2:18am Monday. Couple hours, and a strange time to get a response. I suspect the recruiter was not US based. Given that the job was supposed to be west coast based, I have to imagine they’d made their decision on Friday.
- cvhashim 4y ago
  Probably an auto rejection.
darkerside 4y ago
Would've been courteous to get a decision back to the candidate on Friday. Somebody didn't care enough.

collyw 4y ago

I have been burned like that before.One time it was probably a days worth of work, but split over evenings of my free time took longer, so I didn't finish it. Another time it was as if some junior developer was circle jerking. Whining about the most trivial things (a couple of whitespace errors in Pylint, not returning JSON when they had requested a "page without styling", Not adding a setup.py, when they didn't ask for it. )

teeray 4y ago

> I spent my whole weekend on it, it was shined and buffed and you could have at least glanced at it. Or at the very least lied to me. This is why coding challenges are an immediate dealbreaker for me these days. If I’m going to do a project to showcase my skills, you can be sure I’m going to put my all into it. Getting ghosted after that is insulting beyond words. Put me in an interview setting and I at least know that it’s time-boxed and the interviewer is losing just as much time as I am.