Software engineers, be very careful with this company!
Verbesserungsvorschläge
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The first thing this company requests from you, before anything else, is to lower your salary expectation. Afterwards, you are requested to implement a coding challenge. You never talk to anybody except human resources, who admit that they are just the messenger.
I was requested to implement a web application that fetches multi dimensional advertising data from a given endpoint and to visualize it on a simple interactive dashboard. I was asked to use Micronaut and Kotlin for the back end and React for the front end and was given a week to finish the project. The project was delivered on time and it took me almost two days to implement it. It was feature complete and had a very solid architecture and structure, especially considering the circumstance that this is a job application coding challenge implemented during limited free time and whose result should actually be only the foundation for further discussion. But what happened instead is simply unbelievable.
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Bewerbungsfragen
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- A couple of days after I delivered the application, I received a totally impersonal and generic message: "Thank you very much for your time spent on the challenge and your overall interest in a career with Adverity. However, I regret to inform you in spite of the interesting solution of the challenge the manager decided to go ahead with another candidate for the role."
- I simply could not believe what I was reading. Don't understand me wrong - it is ok not to like the solution and to abort the hiring process. But considering the significant amount of work that has been put into implementation of this application, I would expect at least a couple of sentences with quality feedback about the solution. Ideally, it would be a 15 minute phone call with "good luck wishes" at the end.
- I immediately communicated my disappointment to HR and insisted to receive some feedback as it is surely less work to write a couple of constructive sentences about the solution than to actually implement the solution. HR promised that I will receive some feedback during the week after, but nothing happened. I reminded them a couple of times, without success.
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- At the end HR called me and told me that there is nothing wrong with the solution, but I will not get any feedback. So that's the story.
- Because of all that, I strongly advise you to not accept any coding challenges before you meet the person who will decide about you. Make sure that the people you are talking to have serious intentions and that you will be treated with respect.
- However, I am sure that this company is a lonely example, as I have not witnessed anything like this in the past 15 years that I am active in the industry. But I will certainly be more careful in the future as well.