I was contacted directly by an internal recruiter and we set up a time to talk informally. The initial chat was the standard chat on the company and my own background. At the end, he asked several of the standard, basic technical questions. Since things went well from both of our perspectives, we agreed to set up a time to move forward to the technical interview. The technical interview is exactly as others have mentioned. They give you a basic web app to create with a basic set of requirements and you have about a week to complete it and send it in. In wanting to give them an idea of my approach to designing enterprise systems, I took a very robust approach - a multi-tiered application utilizing Domain Driven Design and SOLID principles, complete with unit tests and a normalized data schema with a SPA as the presentation layer. I really felt that I went the extra mile and modeled the solution off of any of the numerous ones I have done on the job. I felt that the actual video conference with two of their developers went really well. Based on other interview reviews, I was expecting to be grilled, but there was none of that. It was very smooth and conversational as I presented my solution to them. I attempted to solicit feedback and questions from them throughout, but did not get really any negative feedback or criticism or requests to clarify or defend why I did things in a certain way. A lot of their questions dealt with high-level design and leadership. Needless to say, I thought things had gone pretty well. After a few business days, I heard back from the internal recruiter requesting to set up a time to talk. I wasn't necessarily taken aback when he told me they wouldn't be moving forward with me (as you never know with interviews), but most certainly was with the supposed feedback the interviewers left for me. I was told that my solution was "weak". If anything, I was worried going in that it was way over-architected. I was also told a very well known area of strength of mine was "weak" and what is well known to be my weakest area was "strong". I was also told that I appeared nervous and inarticulate. I don't remember being nervous at all once the interview started, nor do I recall having difficulty articulating myself. Another interviewer mentioned having a very strong solution and then getting rejected even though the interviewer told them that they built it the same way the interviewer would have. I read this earlier and took it with a giant grain of salt, but can now say that a lot of that jibes with my own experience. I'm not quite as bitter and they did have the courtesy to get back to me. Their feedback just left me speechless. I also felt a little bit condescended to in that last call as it was explained that they just have a high bar (I've survived more strenuous interviews than this) and perhaps I need to work on some side projects (I have plenty that are in the works, actually). I would've rather just gotten a canned email response than a condescending phone call with nonsensical feedback.