A brief non-technical phone screen followed by a take-home programming quiz. I interviewed for a position based in Tokyo. The programming quiz in Java is to fix a class they will provide you via Github, which has many errors. In fact the class is so broken and so poorly commented that it will not be entirely clear what it's supposed to do. As given, it will do almost nothing, and while the hiring manager told me I was given a lot of leeway in fixing it and implementing functionality, based on the feedback I got later I think that is not the case. Most shockingly, the code refers to some third-party libraries so you will either need to track those libraries down or take them out. I think they were left in by mistake and they are not critical things. Anyway, it's heavy on multi-threading so make use of the concurrency framework in Java to fix it up. It's a couple of hours of work, or so. After submitting my solution and waiting a few weeks I finally got some feedback from the engineers there. The feedback was - not exaggerating - a single sentence, indicating a negative result. It seemed that it had been looked at for maybe five minutes - probably less. Now I had tested my solution well enough to know that it worked, and while the complaint made was that I had changed the functionality of the class, there was almost no functionality to begin with! Very frustrating. In addition the reviewer seemed to not know basic things e.g. what is a try-with-resources in Java 7. I suspect some of the mistakes in the code were not put there intentionally, and that fixing them counted against me. At any rate, I would expect more than a single sentence of feedback after spending a few hours and waiting several weeks. I asked the hiring manager about this, and apparently the team in Tokyo had been putting in very long hours to fix numerous production issues during that time. Ominous. Still, if a company is going to ask you to put in that sort of time on a quiz, they should not terminate the process after giving your solution little more than a glance, even if they are up to their ears in technical debt. Very unprofessional. After all this I had a few third-parties (not colleagues or friends fwiw) review my solution, and they agreed it was pretty solid. In fact I even got recommended to another company out of it! So it was not a total loss.