A friend referred me for a position and I was immediately contacted by the recruiter for the team to schedule a phone screen with the hiring manager. This was mostly a technical interview lasting an hour.

I was then invited for a full day of on-site interviews from 11 am to 5:30 pm.

The on-site interviewers were all good to talk to and, obviously, smart.

There was a lot of coding on a laptop with the screen projected, and also a lot of whiteboard coding and system design. The questions were not extremely tough but made me think in terms of Data Structures and Algorithms.

The lunch turned out to be a very technical interview in itself, with the entire team shooting questions at you.

Overall, it was a good learning experience. My brain was too tired by the end of the day at 5 pm. I received a puzzle question which I was unable to solve, which might be why I did not get the offer. Most of the other interviews went fine, but there may be other factors as well.

The technical questions were all what you would expect in a software engineer interview. Nothing unexpected in particular.