Applied through AngelList, got contacted by recruiter a week later. Initial phone screen interview with different recruiter who was understanding and believed I could be a good fit. Had 45m remote online Zoom + Coderpad technical interview with a Software Engineer, 1 question asked. Question was very reasonable to answer, but engineer hardly asked me about my job history/skills and admitted openly to not knowing anything about me before starting on the technical question. This was the first sign that something was off about Hustle's hiring assessment process. Afterwards, nothing but silence for weeks despite contacting recruiter who had initially set up the technical interview. Then received a generic rejection email almost 3 weeks after the technical interview happened with no explanations why I was rejected. I was very confident in my answer to the technical question and voicing my thoughts as I was solving it, so it must have been some other internal reason. It was a shame the process took such a bad turn, because up until the technical interview I felt respected by the recruiters, who took time to get to know me as an engineer and an individual. The engineer who I interviewed technically with even understood that knowing fundamental programming aspects and languages were far more important than knowing certain tech tools and frameworks, and yet he didn't know one lick of info about me as a person at all. Too many signs of the increasingly common broken interviewing process bug running rampant through companies these days.

A technical challenge where I had to create a web scraper for phone numbers and then a debrief of the challenge. Frankly, this was a ridiculous test that in no way reflects real world activity--unless Hustle is in the business of spamming people with SMS messages.