I was contacted by Jacob who seemed nice. Told me I was on a short list of candidates that they had contacted for the position. A few days later I met with the director of marketing who asked me general questions related to my experience, feelings on webflow vs. wordpress, salary requirements, etc. I was then told I was one of the final 2 applicants and they would be giving me a test. That test was to take figma design and translate it into webflow landing page. Most coding challenges are an hour or two, tops. With everything they requested, the landing page took me upwards of 18 hours. I lost most of my weekend building it. It was pixel perfect, accessible, and exactly what they wanted. After that I met with the entire marketing team who said about 4 words about it, then focused on other things entirely. Two weeks later I send a friendly email asking if they had made a decision. I received no answer. Then a week later I followed up and got a very short "we'll know tomorrow,"
The next day I received an email saying the status of my application had changed. The link was broken in the email so I had to go to their job board just to find that it said position filled. No communication from anyone on the team. Just a cold status update.
You can learn a lot about a company by the way it treats people. If this is how they treat people who put over 20 hours into coding and interviews for them, I'd hate to see how they treat their employees. It was never a dream position. They are using a terrible platform. But I feel like I dodged a bullet.
