The phone screen recruiter helped to steer me into a more suitable role than the one I originally applied for. 2nd stage was a general conversation with the hiring manager about the role and my experience. We seemed to mesh well and the role sounded very fitting. 3rd stage involved a take home project which was then used for a live code review with the team. A full stack game implemented from scratch as a RESTful server and clients connecting to it. You could use Python and/or Java. They said it would take 1-3 hours but I quit with it 80% finished after spending over 10 hours on it. I wrote over 500 LOC and tend to have an above average velocity so I don't think the problem was me being too slow. I explained that I left it incomplete due to taking much longer than expected, and discussed how I'd implement the rest. I was rejected after this. This was frustrating because I felt like a great fit for the role and I liked the team but they weren't able to see my ability fully because of an incomplete coding project. Big waste of +15 hours in total, counting all the stages and take home work!