I went through an extensive interview process at Syndio, which included a take-home test, and a full 8 hour day of interviews. While I felt positive about the take home test and most of the interviews, I encountered a challenging situation with the person who would have been my manager. During our session, she asked me to make several changes to my take-home test within 10 minutes, which I found to be quite demanding given the context and because it was the last interview in the 8 hour round after I already completed the take home test. I requested to complete the changes later that day due to fatigue from the lengthy interview process, and she agreed, though somewhat reluctantly. I completed the requested changes and submitted them, but I believe this situation influenced her decision not to hire me. Reflecting on this experience, I would advise others to consider the risk that this company could waste multiple days of your life and even if you perform well, they could still not hire you.

Applied for a senior backend role, and HR reached out to me within a couple of days. 1st round: HR interview with the usual questions about salary expectations, etc. 2nd round: Hiring manager interview with behavioral-style questions. 3rd round: Take-home assignment. The first assignment required using Python libraries like pandas and statsmodels. I submitted the assignment, and then they wanted to assess my Golang skills. They sent me another take-home assignment to be completed in Golang, which I submitted. Although the instructions clearly mentioned that test cases were not required and that the task should take at most 1-2 hours, they rejected me without giving me a chance to explain my codebase. Their feedback cited missing test cases, lack of database indexes, unreadable code, and inadequate comments—even though I went beyond their instructions by adding database indexes and using clean architecture on my own initiative. Overall, it felt like a total waste of time.