[pmkiwi]

Recently applied to a DevOps Engineer position and after multiple interviews (took ages to plan them...), I finally reached the take-home challenge stage. I have been tasked to work on something absolutely not related to the job, with a framework I have never heard of, and which has never been evoked during the interviews... what a trap!

I obviously failed miserably and they did not even follow up on the challenge even if they said they will... nice!

It is not healthy to set up the candidates to fail - at especially such a late stage - because you just waste everyone's time (especially your own employees'!). I do understand that the companies are trying to protect themselves against false positives, but it sometimes reaches some ridiculous proportions!

Since then, I have something else so happy end (at least for me because they still haven't filled their position...).