[dcdc123]

I once had a take home API integration task that was time-boxed to 2 hours using the honor system. I handed it in but then the interviewers never mentioned it so I assumed nobody paid attention to it and was a bit annoyed. Then I got into the technical interviews and I was asked tons of questions about the APIs I was supposed to integrate with. It wasn't until after the interview that I realized the task itself was probably completely ignored, they just wanted to see what things I learned about the assigned API in a couple hours.

I know that has nothing to do with the question in the title, but I found it interesting.

[cj]

That’s actually pretty smart if your goal is to weed out people who used ChatGPT without caring to understand the output, while also weeding out fake candidates who outsourced the project to someone else.

(The latter issue with fake candidates is a real problem - our company gets literally hundreds of human beings that apply who will get on a call with you, claiming to be in the US, but are actually in something of a call center where you can actually hear other people doing interviews in the same room if the candidates noise cancellation isn’t turned on)

But agree it’s shitty that they didn’t at least acknowledge your work.