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That sucks, perhaps you were rejected based on culture fit? I wish that these VC funded startups would just admit that they're looking for FAANG engineers and be done with it.

That way we wouldn't be wasting our time applying to do free work at a startup just to get a rejection at the end of it. 2c

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This is one thing that irks me a bit. You may be doing real-world code tests where you build something, but they're not using your code for it and they don't have copyright assignment over it (unless you sign that away but I've never seen that).

Real-world problems have often been touted as a solution to useless whiteboard tests but then I've seen a lot of resentment when someone doesn't get a job with it. A month is too much time to spend on an interview project though.

I’d rather build something or do a case study (since I’m on the product side now, RIP sweet mechanical keyboard) then walk through white boarding problems.

I don’t mind a take home assignment that has a reasonable due date, but they should only be given deep enough into the recruiting process IMO.

Big fan of Segment, been wanting to transition some of our stuff over and tap into the kinesis pipeline connectors

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