I recently had an experience with a company that left a lot to be desired. Despite never actually speaking with me, they requested that I complete a take-home code test, requiring several hours of work to create a simple accordion using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I mean, how hard could it be, right? Even if you manage to knock the test out of the park, all you get is an automated rejection email with no feedback. They toss out some generic reasons for turning you down and call it a day. They clearly have no respect for the fact that their little test is eating into people's precious time. You would think they could muster up a bit of decency and have an actual human provide some constructive feedback, you know? As if that weren't enough, a quick peek at the company's LinkedIn profile makes it painfully obvious that they have no interest in promoting diversity within their engineering team. Instead, they seem to have a thing for hiring inexperienced engineers with no engineering background or industry front-end experience. And here's the real kicker - some of their engineers' GitHub profiles are full of projects from popular coding tutorials that they have the nerve to pass off as their own. Spare me, please. I have better things to do with my time than waste it on these clowns.

The interview process was honestly fine, but they ghost you afterwards. I think it is basic respect to let the candidate know about the status (which I also sent two follow up emails), whether moving on or not.