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I’ve passed through a screening procedure recently that consisted of three steps:

1) They asked for some publicly available samples of my code «I’m proud of». Okay, I prepared three samples from different areas with detailed descriptions and comments, explaining what that code did and why it was good.

2) After that, as a coding challenge, they asked me to write a simple app using the Unsplash API.

3) Finally we had an over an hour long interview during which I was again given three simple coding problems.

And then they rejected me. The question I have after all that is do you really need a multi-staged procedure like that to determine a candidate is not a good fit?! When exactly did they decide I wouldn’t fit? If that was after step 1 or 2, why didn’t they stop right there? If that was only after step 3, then what’s the purpose of steps 1 and 2? They don’t mean anything if step 3 can just cancel them out. Then why didn’t they start with step 3 not to waste my and their time?