Rover.com Software Engineer interview experience

It was a full 3-tier web application with a database, migration scripts, both front end and back end, and expectations for production-quality work—including tests that I was supposed to write. The scope felt like it was built to consume several days, and I didn’t want to spend 3–4 days doing something that might end with a silent rejection.

I ultimately bowed out when the assignment landed, because the time cost didn’t match the uncertainty. The part that bothered me most was the feeling that they expected candidates to treat it like free labor. Later, I heard similar feedback about the