First stage was to complete a comment moderation quiz and a series of logic questions, nothing too hard, nothing too relevant. Second stage was a series of C# programming tests (fizzbuzz etc) to be completed in a 2-hour time limit. I was originally told I'd need to come into the office, and had taken a Monday morning off work to do this (I had a train booked for later in the day) - they were well aware of this. On Friday around 5pm I found out that I would not need to go in to the office, but would be sent a test, or link to a test, at a time of my choosing. To keep things simple I asked them to send the test out at 9.30am that Monday - the time I'd originally scheduled with the company. I received the test at 10.50am, after having set up a drive folder for them to place the files. Though I mentioned it when they started having trouble, they were still trying to send executable files in a zipped Visual Studio project. At this point, the only person I'd had any contact with was the recruiter. I was mildly bemused that I was being asked to complete a set of C# tests for a DevOps role, fairly amazed that they were trying to send exe files via email, intrigued that the test was heavily VS-specific, given that there had been no mention of this in any of the information I'd been sent prior, and annoyed that I'd given up half a day's pay to provide tech support to a company (via an intermediary, for some reason they didn't seem to want to message me themselves) so they could get a programming quiz to me. I decided this was probably not the company for me, and rather than rush through the questions (I'd already written a FizzBuzz to save some time) I decided to spend that time writing a "thanks but no thanks" letter explaining why the interview process had been confusing, frustrating, and ultimately cast the company in a bad light. It seemed like a shame because they sound like a good company to work for, the location was great, but the lack of attention to detail and the poor experience I had with the company threw up enough red flags that I really didn't feel it would be worth the risk going to work for them. The strangest thing of all - for a company that is focused on protecting the reputation of a brand, they don't seem to care much about their own image. I didn't receive a single piece of communication from the company; not to apologize for there being such a delay in getting their quiz to me, not to apologize for essentially wasting my morning, not to apologize for changing plans at the last minute. That suggests to me that there are other issues within the organization; the overall impression that I ended up with is that I dodged a bullet, here.