Fetch Backend Engineer interview experience

Instead, I ended up getting silence and no meaningful feedback after putting in hours. It was especially frustrating because it felt like the take-home itself wasn’t a gate I could trust—like the work was sent broadly and the decision had already been made.

On top of that, my recruiter communications were confusing. I got messages that implied the role was closed and that I’d hear back later, and then I was eventually told they were moving forward without me after a delay. No clear, human explanation ever landed in the middle of all that time.

In the end, I didn’t get an offer. What stuck