[cspa]

It sounds like this happened after I left Crunchyroll in 2015. The process I had in place was definitely not like that :/

Well FWIW, I personally wrote the coding exercise that you enjoyed (http://www.crunchyroll.com/tech-challenge/roaming-math/yourn...). I thought it was a good mix of basic algorithms (tree traversal) as well as some practical knowledge (CURL/http). I'm surprised they are still using the same one :)

[Jemaclus]

My interview was in June 2015. Maybe you had left by then. It did seem disorganized.

I did really enjoy that coding challenge, though. Good job with it. It is the one thing I did like about the whole experience, and I still share it with people when they ask about what a good coding challenge might be. Tree traversal isn't particularly useful in web dev world, but it's a pretty intuitive task, so I think it's gives good insight into whether a programmer can reason logically about a task.

I'd rather see real-world challenges, though. Sometimes that's hard, though, depending on the company.