I knew about the job opening as I've seen it on stackoverflow.com/jobs and I did a bit of research and decided not to apply because of the negative reviews I've read online . At some point I've been contacted by a crossover recruiter and she managed to convince me to apply . The first part of the interview was an online test with multiple choices that you needed to finish in one hour (I think there were 30 questions if I remember correctly) but you were encouraged to finish in half the time , the test covered css , html , javascript , sql ... Some of the questions were very poorly formulated and some were really subjective , each correct question was valued with 5 point and you needed at least 80 points to pass . After finishing the test (I've scored 105 or 115 can't remember exactly but I was in the first 10%) you could see the leaderboard and the maximum score was 125 out of 150, I think this a good indication that 5 question were wrong . After passing the test I was assigned with a project that I needed to finish in 7 days , the project was pretty simple but I've made some bad decision on choosing which client side framework to use and it took me a couple of extra days to finish the project (I managed to finish it in 7 days) , I think I've lost 3-4 days troubleshooting some issues I've had with backbone.js handling the events . The project requirements were to create a support ticket website with 2 types of users , normal users and support agents , It was a basic CRUD with 2 kinds of resources (tickets , users) I've received a response from them after about one week from the submission deadline and it informed me that my score was to low and I couldn't continue to the last interview. These were the reasons I received - Design document with technologies and components briefly described - Design document with few diagrams - Demo without voice - Poor exception handling - Bad modularity - Small level of patterns usage - Small level of code abstractions usage - Some requirements missing: Incomplete user management for 'Admin' users, cannot create new users