During the interview, I introduced myself and shared my past experiences. I discussed my take-home assessment, answered coding and work-style questions, and engaged in a conversation to learn more about the company and its culture.
I applied online. I interviewed at Fetch (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2025
Interview
Absolutely abysmal interview. A huge red flag is that the coding test they give you before you've talked to anyone is to make an entire website that calls on their API to perform several tasks. This is at least a day of free labor, more so if you follow the unsubtle push to add extra features or make it look polished. There is no deadline on delivering this, which I suppose goes for communication from the recruiter as well. The documentation for their API was unclear in a couple instances, and after exhausting several options, I reached out to my recruiter for clarification. They completely ghosted me, leaving my project blocked for several weeks. I literally can't move forward to submitting the final result because the person who said I should e-mail them any questions is not answering any of my questions.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Fetch in Feb 2025
Interview
Automated take home assignment from their recruiter to create an application using their dummy API's. I followed up with their recruiter regarding some questions about the take home to which they didn't bother to respond until I gave them an ultimatum where if they expect me to submit something they should at the very least respond to any questions that may come with the requirement of the handoff. Needless to say the recruiter got back right after that which is several days after the initial email I sent out, this was a huge red flag but I went with it anyways. It says you should be able to finish and submit it with a few hours (in their heads probably 2-3) but if you want to stand out and use clean coding standards with documentation it will take you way longer. I took the time to add excellent UI/UX with theming as well and good documentation, only to be met with an automated email a week later with generic BS and absolutely 0 feedback. Even though they mention they will get back to you within 24-48 hours, don't be fooled they just want to waste peoples time. IMHO steer clear of this company as they do not value the time candidates put in to their work, after reading the reviews about others experiences I regret not reading it sooner so I wouldn't have wasted my time on their take home.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build out an application with login, pagination, filtering items, favoriting items while making the UI/UX intuitive. The application should be hosted somewhere while also on a public github repo.