Foursquare Software Engineer interview experience

I was asked to do an assignment that wasn’t necessarily hard in terms of complexity, but it still demanded a serious chunk of time. In my case it included multiple problems and a system-design element, and even though I finished within the expected window and followed up after submitting, I never got the kind of communication that should come with that level of effort.

After I sent things back, I found myself waiting. Sometimes it was a week, sometimes it was longer—enough time that I reached back out and got vague apologies like the team being busy. What stood out most was the lack of