During recruiter call and phone screening, a lot of promises were made. The first 5 minutes of in-person interview were then spent by hiring manager, backpedaling to lower job title. There was no 1-on-1 interview, only a 3-4 engineer panel white boarding session. Questions overall were average difficulty, with a strong technical focus and not much about experience/personality. The office has typical novice interviewers that were looking for an exact match with their expected algorithm and that did a poor job of describing the problems to solve. Also, there was very little feedback, so it was hard to tell whether that zoned out look means my solution was a) wrong, b) too hard for interviewer to understand, or c) interviewer was bored.

Nice people from HR taking care of everything. They make sure you know at all stages what's happening, what's next, and who you'll talk to. Had several meetings with different people (managers and engineers), each lasting about an hour. They organized them all so they happened during one day. The technical parts covered programming (C++) and general algorithms questions, some going very deep. The social parts were conducted by HR, focusing on work attitude, problem solving, team skills, etc.