Dotfive interview questions

You can’t have your camera on so you can’t actually see who you’re talking too, which personally found weird to not actually see someone when it’s a remote company. After the interview I was told I didn’t do as well as they hoped and want some time to think about it - 2 weeks later I get a call saying they want to make an offer but for less than I wanted. Left the process feeling deflated and annoyed, felt more transactional than about people/relationships.

Initial call with the CEO, who seems a pretty nice guy. Then coding test and 15 or so questions to answer in writings. Build an CRUD app ( front-end and back-end). The app should: - be responsive - be pleasant to look at - have tests - be production grade - either implement a login system or make it real-time ( sockets and similar ) - Max coding time is 3 hours. Putting aside the ridiculous time requirement, I found it a bit odd to try to cram so much stuff in a coding tests. For example, most engineers would struggle to make it look 'pretty' even if given a week to focus on that. Having a good sense of esthetics was hardly a requirements for a full stack engineer in any company that I ever worked for and even small startup can afford a designer. They talk the big game, of being a software house, rather then an agency, and of having the highest of standards, but at the same time they ask you to submit your coding test as a zipped repository via email, and they seem to develop a lot in PHP. It was just all a bit jarring.