A really positive experience through the whole process, which took 5 weeks from the first interview to the offer.

The first interview was a technical phone interview where I remoted in via SSH to work with some files. There were a few C questions, but I don't have much experience with C, so the interviewer let me do the algorithm stuff in Python.

The second interview was a 2-hour onsite where I worked through a whiteboarding problem with an engineering manager for about an hour. Afterward, the CTO joined, and I worked through a couple more questions with him.

Both interviews felt more like an interesting two-way conversation than me being awkwardly put on the spot and judged, which I really appreciated. I'm a new grad, and both of them knew orders of magnitude more than me, but still didn't talk down to me at all. They even left me with a list of 3-4 cool data structures/algorithms to look up when I got home.

Basic questions about C pointers as they relate to Strings.

Evaluate the performance of two simple implementations of popcount().

Given a node in a BST, find the next greater element.