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Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback. I appreciate the detail and will use it to improve our interview process.
We've recently evolved our technical interviews, moving from live coding to a take-home exercise where AI-assisted development is expected, followed by a code review. We've also introduced a system design conversation designed to explore different approaches and trade-offs as constraints change. We feel this approach better represents the real-world working environment. From the timing, it sounds like you experienced some teething problems as we adapted to the new process.
The feedback on the system design interview is particularly useful. We want this to be a collaborative technical conversation where candidates can ask questions, test assumptions and reason through a problem. For some roles, specific experience—such as optimising systems at the edge—is important, but we need to be clear when that is something we're looking for.
We also expect the overall process to feel joined-up and move at a reasonable pace. A process lasting over a month is longer than we would want.
Thank you again for the candid feedback. There are useful lessons for us here as we continue to refine the process, and we wish you all the best in finding your next role.
Ronan
VP Engineering