Ugh that reminds me of my least favorite interview of all time. Some years ago I did a take home project that I spent several hours on, felt pretty good about the code and how I’d addressed the challenge.

A few days later I was called back for a phone interview with the CTO who wanted to do a screenshare leetcode type thing. He had no idea I’d even done the take home task, and wanted me to solve a stupid graph traversal problem requiring the same algorithm I’d used in the take home project.