The interview process includes:

• HR screen
• Product manager interview
• HR screen (again)
• Take-home/live coding test
• HR screen (again)
• A 4-hour block consisting of:
  • Product discussion
  • Live coding test
  • Live cloud architecture test
  • Collaboration skills assessment with an engineer
  • Executive interview

The interview process is FAANG-like but without the compensation or prestige to match. Not only do they give you the coding exam the day before (for you to work on it in your free time), but then they have not one, but two separate interviews to discuss it. Not to mention the architecture test.

Not only is this interview process unnecessarily long, but they don't even guarantee a specific level. They conduct interviews as a giant open cattle call and later decide your level on their own after you've invested weeks (or months) slogging through this process.

So, after weeks of sweating through the above, you could be lowballed. Why? That's what they think of your skills.

This marathon interview process is dehumanizing. There are too many people involved and too many steps that take too long overall. Honestly, if they ran all their own FTE engineers through it, I doubt half would pass.

For a business line that's not earth-shaking (digitizing cap tables for startups), it's likely not worth your time and effort to even go through this process. Plenty of other fish in the sea.

Eventually, they'll run out of senior engineers willing to subject themselves to this crucible and pare it down to something reasonable. But until then, stay away.