Phone screen with hiring manager. Four and a half hours of panels. Coding exercise/architecture discussions and interviewing with people all the way up to the CTO. For the code exercise, they tell you to “share your screen and code this”. It doesn’t feel friendly or fun. It feels like the company isn’t aware of how off putting their style is for this portion of the interview. For a fully remote team, your engineers need to collaborate well over video and it really felt like there was no preparation or effort here on their part. Not even an online environment to pair program in or a file with instructions (I had to ask them to paste them in the zoom chat). It also felt awkward to have two of their engineers on the code portion. It actually feels like you have two people standing over your shoulder while you code at your desk. That’s more awkward than having one person coding WITH you at your desk. The hiring manager is easy to speak with. The people on the architecture/experience discussion session are equally pleasant and knowledgeable (this seems by far the most useful portion of the interview process).

2 interviews, First interview was a technical leetcode type of questions I would classify as about a medium. Second round was 5 back to back interviews that included another leetcode type question, system design, behavioral interviews and a culture fit.