Holy cow this was a complete joke. I was initially contacted through a recruited on LinkedIn. We scheduled a quick phone screening and she passed me along to the next recruiter, who scheduled me for a phone chat with the hiring manager. The call went great and I was moved along to the coding challenge (battleship). Completed that and had to send repeated email follow-ups because my recruiter just fell off the face of the earth. Their email stated they would get back to you within the week and mine took over two weeks for them to get back to me. Setting expectations is important, in my opinion. After the two weeks, the recruiter told me they changed their mind on the coding challenge and wanted to do a different one. What? Who does that? I had to wait another week for someone to come up with the coding challenge and then it was scheduled for me by yet another recruiter. By this point, it was over 3 months and I had been passed around to four recruiters. I finished the new coding challenge, waited another few weeks, and got my decline note, which I expected because that coding challenge literally made no sense. I chatted with other engineers who have been doing this stuff for decades and none of them could understand what in the world they were asking or wanting. It was as if the hiring manager just made something up and then gave it to people in haste. The entire process was confusing after getting randomly passed around from person to person and I find absurd for a company like Github. I've never heard of a company issue a coding challenge only to say, "just kidding. We change our minds".