A recruiter contacted me over LinkedIn and scheduled an initial call. The whole interview process was interesting as it was unique compared to other organizations.

The first step in the process was a take-home assignment. After submitting the assignment, the hiring team wanted to go over a virtual onsite that had 5 rounds spread over two days.

• The first round was a deep dive into the assignment and rework of the program in a different way.
• The second round was a typical system design.
• The third was with their product team on collaboration.
• The fourth was with the hiring manager.
• The fifth was with the VP of Engineering.

It was a very positive experience overall. The recruiter was courteous enough to schedule a call and provide interview feedback rather than just sending out a rejection email.

1. Program to parse NGINX logs to fetch IP addresses.

   CIDR ranges are provided to the script as input. The program should classify the IPs to which CIDR range they belong from the given ranges. Host this program as a webserver so that the results are available on localhost:8080. Use Docker to containerize this entire setup and ensure that the webserver results are available on the host where the container is running (perform a port mapping).

2. Design a popular website and discuss in detail.

3. Make sure you prepare for Kubernetes, as they are looking for this skill (I slipped here as I did not prepare for this).