A recruiter reached out on LinkedIn. I responded a month later, and they seemed eager to recruit me.

Instead of a phone interview, I was given a coding challenge. I had studied using AlgoExpert and completed about 25% - 30% of those questions, covering each category.

I was given a coding challenge – I believe it was two hours to complete two questions. They were a little tricky, but I was able to figure them out just in the nick of time. I thought they were of appropriate difficulty.

A few days later, I was invited to a final interview. It was virtual, and I had four back-to-back hour-long interviews.

Most of the interviewers were nice, but the first one seemed very rude. I think I just caught him on an off day. Overall, it was a positive interview experience.

The speed of the process was also great. After passing the coding challenge, I was able to schedule the interview as soon as a few days later, or as late as a month and a half out in the future. I opted for sooner since I was trying to coordinate with other interviews.

I received an acceptance offer exactly three business days after the interview.

One interview was a standard coding challenge: a LeetCode medium problem about the amount of water between an array of walls of varying heights.

Another interview involved writing out the APIs for a simple program, focusing on object-oriented design.

A third interview was also a coding challenge, but it was more about writing APIs for a publish/subscribe model.

And the last one had no code; it was just a high-level discussion about how I would organize a solution to a coding challenge.