After talking with the recruiter, I took an online coding assessment. The assessment had a two-day time limit, so I blocked out time to do it; it took about six hours altogether.

Then I met with a panel of managers. It was not clear who the hiring manager was, or who I'd be working with.

I came an additional time and was given a tour of the office by the VP. He was really great and gave me confidence in the organization that I did not have before.

I was offered a position with a different title than I applied for and reporting to a director I'd never met.

There were so many. I had to write a block of code that was checked for positive and negative test cases, as well as performance (very long strings). I asked about it later; no one ever looks at the exercise, just the score. In-person questions were about experience and how to handle conflict and adversity. One interview included a short exercise with a block of supposedly real production code that was awful. I had to analyze and explain why it was wrong.