Had an interview with CTO who was really nice. He told me he would like to move on to a three hour technical pairing exercise over Zoom. Three hours is pretty long but not really a big deal! Come interview day I was told that this "pairing" exercise would actually be just me, sitting alone on a live and recorded zoom call. I was told I could ping the CTO if I needed him but, whether he meant it that or not, it came off as, "You probably shouldn't need ping me." So for the next three hours I sat on a zoom call awkwardly talking out loud to myself while trying to solve what wasn't a terribly difficult problem, but tough enough that being flustered made it all kind of difficult. The second strike is that while that in my rejection letter—which was at least prompt and very cordial—they offered to let me speak to one of the engineers for "some thoughts, though not necessarily feedback" which was sort of confusing. I responded graciously saying I was expecting the rejection and would love to talk to one of the engineers. That was the last I hear from them. I'm sure Clerky is a great company to work for but this interview left me feel really low in a way I don't usually do. It made all the more confusing by how nice the CTO was. TL;DR, beware.