I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meltwater in Nov 2021
Interview
Pretty standard interview process. I had an interview with the head of engineering and a team manager. That went great, then they gave me the coding challenge.
The instructions literally said:
"Framework: Angular, if any"
Now I understand if you're in angular world, there's a hard difference between Angular and AngularJS. But for everyone else using other frameworks, that's easily a typo's worth of difference. I would've chosen 3 other frameworks (Svelte > Vue > React) before anything Angular but the instructions said to use Angular.
I incorrectly went with "AngularJS" instead of "Angular" and was disqualified because I used the wrong framework. I was told I should've pushed back if I wanted to use a different framework? Your instructions spelled out exactly what you wanted, I just misread and chose poorly and sure, that's on me.
When I put in the time to do a coding challenge, and the company tosses my whole interview process over that? I think I dodged a bullet.
Nice guys, cool company, but pay attention and clearly define your requirements, or explicitly state that any frameworks are optional not one in particular "if any".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The challenge centered around taking an input for a text document, and an input of words to filter by that can be comma separated, space separated, or could include any amount of single or double quotes to denote phrases. Then you had to filter the text doc based on those inputs.