I don't think these guys are actually hiring, or they are very bad at it.
I went through their hiring process, the video interview went well even though it was with one Dev (pretty random). There was common interest and a technical fit. I was given a trivial code test that I assumed was only a formality. I then created a pull request. I had to follow-up for weeks before hearing back from them and the only thing that they ended up doing was to give my pull request some thumbs up. They since disappeared even though I reached out for feedback multiple times.
I suspect that they are doing this non stop even though they don't have open positions and maybe from time to time they hire based on their workload. Look at all the pull requests (https://github.com/serpapi/code-challenge/pulls). Lots of those are good quality, but they have been on "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" for months.
Sorry about the delays! Our engineer director in charge of making that process smooth still lives in Ukraine, and, you know, war.
I am gonna help. Can you forward me where you are at directly to my email julien _AT_ serpapi.com? I will dig to find out why your application is stuck.
I don't think these guys are actually hiring, or they are very bad at it. I went through their hiring process, the video interview went well even though it was with one Dev (pretty random). There was common interest and a technical fit. I was given a trivial code test that I assumed was only a formality. I then created a pull request. I had to follow-up for weeks before hearing back from them and the only thing that they ended up doing was to give my pull request some thumbs up. They since disappeared even though I reached out for feedback multiple times.
I suspect that they are doing this non stop even though they don't have open positions and maybe from time to time they hire based on their workload. Look at all the pull requests (https://github.com/serpapi/code-challenge/pulls). Lots of those are good quality, but they have been on "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" for months.