Comment by davidsojevic

Comment by davidsojevic a day ago

We're always looking to improve where we can to reduce any gaps in the process and to make sure no applications slip through the cracks.

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.

[0] https://github.com/serpapi/code-challenge

_winx a day ago

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.

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davidsojevic a day ago

Given the large delta between what you've experienced and what I can find on my side, the only thing I can think is that your application has been handled outside of our standard process (perhaps directly with someone?) and/or that the SaaS we use to manage the process isn't surfacing you in search.
The code challenge linked has been used for the software engineer candidates long before I began at SerpApi and, in the spirit of transparency, candidates have been directed to make their submissions via a PR to the public repository since almost our earliest employees, e.g. Ilya's submission can be found here: https://github.com/serpapi/code-challenge/pull/6
Can you please forward the email chain(s) to me at david at serpapi.com so I can look into it? Even if you've withdrawn from the process, I would very much appreciate having a copy of these to see what's gone wrong.

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- _winx a day ago
  
  Upon checking these emails, I realized what I did. It's a different company but with an but with an overlap in name/domain (Serp API/Search API) and similar website where I also applied. As embarrassing as this is, it really happened. I don't want to spread misinformation but can't edit the parent posts anymore. I'll contact the mods if it's possible to just edit/delete them. I'm really sorry.
  
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