First, there is an initial screen with hr recruiter followed by a 48 hour window where you are asked to take home code assessment that may take up to 2-3 hours. Afterwards they said there's a follow up with a code review and another conversation with the architect. I did not make it pass the code assessment and all I was told was that they would not be proceeding with my application. Software is a craft and if you want to build it from scratch, it takes a little bit more time, especially to flex your architectural design. It felt real shady that they were asking candidates to give up potentially 2-3 or more hours of their time to perform an assessment and not give them the decency of a reason or a code review. Don't waste your time.

VPE spoke to me for half an hour, heavily inflating the value of the company, team and the product. Take-home assignment that turn out to be a real problem they have been struggling with for a year. They use interview to extract information from candidates, and they interview even they don't have money to actually hire.