We had a video call where I introduced myself, talked about company and possible position. After that I got my home work assignment. I waited for an answer for at least a week.

Interviewed for a cryptic, one-off position unrelated to the company's main profile. The first question was: "Why are you interested in web scraping?" I said I'm not really specifically interested in that. He looked genuinely puzzled: "Then why are you here?" I had to remind him of the job description, which was immediately a bit of a red flag to me. We talked about my background then. I was asked something along the lines of: "Why do your job spans keep getting shorter?" Which was not only factually incorrect, but my shortest role was at least 1 year. I wouldn't call it job hopping. Another red flag right there. Overall, the talk was pretty generic and uneventful. The interviewer did project some weird energy, but nothing too disturbing. I was declined on the grounds of not having enough "refactoring experience". Which is kind of weird. Because you see REFACTORING is normally not a distinct career specialization. It also never came up as something immediately important within the vague description of the prospective position. I imagine it was just a lame/polite brush-off. But then again, what do I know. Maybe they did require a lot of REFACTORING 🤔