Flytedesk interview questions

There were two rounds of interviews. The interviews were zoom conversations with each of the two co-founders. Additional design-related questions were sent via email to allow for a more thoughtful response.

In phone screens went well. Was asked to take a coding challenge and only spend 2-4 hours on it. During the code challenge ran into many issues with the REST API they asked me to use, from CORS issues to 500's to bad implementation -"try and include a forward slash and an id in his URI for his PUT method". I spent a large amount of the time debugging their api issues and lost a lot of time towards the goal of the project. Spending more than 7 hours on their "2-4" hour project I was still able to deliver something missing about half their specs, but was called out for "not putting in enough time and making excuses" . They didn't seem to have ever tested their api, which probably helps explains why they have an unrealistic time expectation of delivering a full web app, from mocks, with unit testing.