Circle Internet Financial interview questions

Applied online, didn’t hear back as Circle was busy mass posting the job in every city of America on LinkedIn getting hundreds of resumes. Then I sent my resume directly to a recruiter there and had a phone screen scheduled immediately. Was told interview process would consist of talking to 6 “or maybe 7” people. How can you conduct interviews without having a clear idea of the interview process? Job was open since November but it’s now March and still open. Are they even trying to fill the role? Interview with hiring manager was rescheduled 3 times. When I finally talked to him, it was an amazing interview and I was excited. After one week of not hearing back, I followed up and received a generic “we decided to move ahead with other candidates.” Beware, the leadership team at this company is old and crypto companies tend to hire young people! I can sense they wanted someone “old” which I am proud to say doesn’t describe me :)

I received a take-home challenge through the CodeSignal platform from a recruiter. The challenge was supposed to take one hour to complete and included four steps. I managed to finish 3 out of 4 steps within the time limit. However, the next day, I got an email from CodeSignal saying they couldn’t verify my assessment because I either screenshared or copied the problem description. This was confusing since I had my screen shared the entire time, my camera was on, and I even scanned my ID — all of this for a simple take-home assessment. After spending a lot of time thinking about what could have gone wrong, I realized that I had copied the function signature from the problem description and pasted it into the code window to save time because CodeSignal’s autocomplete wasn’t working. I genuinely believe no developer from their team tested the take-home challenge, or they would have faced the same issue.