I applied through a recruiter, and the process took 3 weeks.

• Recruiter
• Hiring Manager
• Filter DSA interviewer
• Interview loop (frontend, backend, system, and personality)

It was a standard process. The recruiter was fairly put together. The hiring manager was decent as well. Everyone was rather friendly. Their ability to competently assess me was not so hot. I absolutely scored a perfect score on that initial filter problem. I went all the way through to the end of the loop. Their ability to assess me competently on that second DSA was poor. The interviewer got bogged up in details that would be acceptable to critique on a job that was very language-specific, but not for the kind of position they had me interview for. I got a call from the recruiter and got good feedback. It's why I know how I did in that loop. I did well on everything else. I don't think I'll answer the message the next time one of their recruiters reaches out to me. They are failing good fit and good engineering candidates because of oversensitivity to details that are inappropriate for what they're going for. They are not on mission.