Well, that gives me all the more reason to try and continue to avoid these tasks. It is genuinely distressing though how many mediocre companies are adopting these horrific interview chains. More often than not starting with some multi-hour coding task before speaking with anyone worth speaking to. It's pretty bad.
I had someone hiring a web/app dev position and they had me make a 2D platformer game for a coding task... I still have no idea why.. It was some education startup trying to find someone to write socket code. They were really nice but by the end of it I wasn't super stoked on coding tasks.
