Two Sigma interview questions

I was asked to come in for a three hour interview that ended up being closer to four hours. I met with five people, pretty much everyone that I would being working with on a regular basis within the company. The second round consisted of a redesign project. This part of the process revealed a bit of disorganization. The company doesn't have very many designers, and for that reason is relatively new at conducting designer interviews. I was given "very positive" feedback on my redesign as of Monday, and told that they were just waiting on more candidates, but saw that the job had been reposted and found out that they weren't "moving forward with my candidacy" by Thursday. Just seemed a little disingenuous to me. Overall a very slow moving process by New York standards.

Applied online and spoke to a recruiter who didn't talk too much about my resume, but gave me a general overview of the company. Next I completed an online coding challenge(3 hrs, 2 questions) as others have noted. Next I spoke to the hiring manager for a technical phone screen. Surprisingly, the interview was not about what I could build, but about how much I could recall from my memory. So I was asked to shut my laptop and play Q & A about which CSS properties I could and could not remember. My recommendation to the company if someone is reading, would be to re-evaluate how you interview front-end engineers, other tech companies have moved on and actually have really interesting phone screens where they evaluate you by asking you to build something valuable.