Interview level : medium Interview experience: Some interviewer were normal Some were weird (as in like anime level weird) I interviewed for senior level software engineer role. First round was two coding challenges and questions around tech stack in my resume. Coding problems were around leetcode easy and medium. This interviewer was normal. Then I moved to the final interview day (5 hrs long). I asked if they could split the interview over two days but they didn’t agree. Thats when I should have stopped interviewing but you live and learn. The interviews were split into 1 coding round, 1 system design and 3 behavioral interviews. First interview / behavioral - this was behavioral. This was normal interview. We went over some questions from my resume and had standard behavioral interview questions. This round went well Second interview / coding - this was ok. This was in between normal and weird. They ask you yo write code for a small feature. I easily able to complete about 90% of it. The question was decently worded. One section was confusing as it took me longer time to actually understand what was being asked. This coding challenge was not leetcode. Overall the coding challenge is medium level solving a use case. Third interview / behavioral - By far this was the weirdest interview. And weird one so far I have had in my interview. The person was vaping throughout the interview. This was very odd and unprofessional but I didn’t call the person on it. This behavioral round was very weird. The person compared Caesars sports betting to Google. I was like duh! A betting app versus a giant tech company but I was like whatever floats your boat. Fourth round / System design - This was very productive and great interview. I easily tasked with some work that centered around real time data streaming. I handled various failure scenarios and such and did excellent on it. Fifth round / behavioral- By this time I was exhausted. This behavioral round was also good. Nothing jumped out of it as out of ordinary. Overall I didn’t like the fact that they didn’t want to spread the interview over two days. And the person vaping throughput while conducting the interview was so off putting.

Three step process: recruiter screening, technical, then 5+ hour(!) panel. The technical I was told would be somewhat informal, but I found it to be... weird. It was partially a whiteboard, where I felt the interviewer was oddly combative and deliberately trying to trip me up. It struck me as strange because it was a fairly easy problem and didn't warrant all those jabs. The second half was a technical discussion, which was much more relaxed and positive. I didn't wait to hear back on how I did, I told my recruiter that I wasn't interested in. I didn't feel motivated to invest another 5 hours of panel interviewing with this company.