The first step is not "to know each other" but the tech task. Boom... Classical crapy task: - they expect you to do it in 4 hours - even with the doubled time it's pretty hard to do task in a good way So the are a few logical questions: - why do they force devs to do crap? - do they really want to review a crappy code? - or do they want devs to spend more time than requested? No alternative (for this task) was proposed. Also, they respond suuuuuuuper slowly. Not sure they deserve to call themself a "startup". As a resume: I do not recommend even applying. Do not waste your time.