I hope this doesn't come off as bitter, angry, etc - I merely feel compelled to say something about Vercel's current initial assessment. It requires access to your desktop, which is standard and acceptable to me. It also requires your camera to be on, which I can grudgingly accept if the company is of high-caliber and all else is reasonable. I take issue when one compounds the above with the following: The instructions state that you must stay in view of the screen at all times, not use other devices, and not take breaks off screen (bathroom breaks or otherwise). Note that the assessment is an hour and 30 minutes long. I personally prefer to fail miserably than cheat on an interview, however I can think of at least 5 different ways that a candidate could skirt those rules. I think requiring such stringency on candidates is unfair, especially so given that cheating is still possible.

Initial phone screen then an online coding challenge. The coding challenge wasn't too hard, but I still wasn't able to get it all and so they decided not to follow through with me.