Pros:

• Recruiters get in touch almost immediately.

• You can interview with multiple teams at once, independently. Uh, well, read cons below.

• Response time is almost always good.

Cons - Welcome to Reality:

I had a couple of phone interviews with two of the teams and one with the third.

Both interviews with the first two teams went way beyond excellent, with me answering every single question and having a good and engaging discussion with the interviewer. I am baffled at the outcome – rejected by both teams with no feedback. If they say background is not a fit after two rounds of interviews, I do not see why they even had to hold the two interviews.

One team got back after the first interview saying they wanted me to come onsite. After giving my availability and almost three weeks later, they got back saying they wanted another phone interview. I agreed. Almost immediately after the phone interview, I was rejected. It is not hard to connect the dots and see that they had made the decision already. Moreover, they asked for another round of interview after the first two team rejects. It is again not hard to see that the process of multiple team interviewing is not independent.

One team asked me to code in coderpad.io. The code I wrote was right, but the interviewer only used a C++ compiler. The same code worked perfectly on a C compiler. I sent a note after the interview, but guess what? Rejected anyway.

OS and Networking questions, for the most part.