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I can't find any calls/interviews with your name and also can't find any submission from you on our code challenge[0] (which is the only take home task that we ask devs to do), but it may just mean that you've applied under a different name and GitHub profile than you have listed on the website in your about page/your HN username.
If you can reach out to me at david at serpapi.com and provide me with some more detail about your application I can try and find out what's happened here.
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I know the OP was a mixup, but related question... do you only reach back out if it's for an interview? I had an experience last year myself where I never heard anything at all. Which was unfortunate, bc this place actually fascinated me on a bunch of levels.
I obviously withdrew from the interview process already, but what you wrote is either plain untrue or you really do have huge gaps in the process. Here's what I have on my side:
- an entire email conversation (including quiz you sent me, which also took time to respond to) - I obviously used the same name and email domain which can traced back to my profile,
- the emails about initial call I self-scheduled and attended,
- the repo (under your GitHub org), a PR I opened (as requested) and two more emails from me - one was a confirmation of completion of the task and another to touch base after a week of complete silence.
The task was different from the one you linked - to write a scraper which extracts search results from Google page, according to the sample input HTML and expected JSON output that were provided.