4 rounds: talk with recruiter, behavioral with HM, system design, algorithms.

The scheduling process was chaotic. I got WhatsApp messages after midnight from people in India.

I had one interview scheduled 8 days out and I was focused on prepping for that one. Then I had another interview sprung upon me about 4 days out for the day before the one I was prepping for, so I created a new prep schedule to accommodate both.

I got to the first interview, and it was going good for the first 20 minutes. Then the interviewer asked for a solution that I had solved, but he said it wasn’t good enough. I spent the next 38 minutes thinking of everything else possible just for him to say we had 2 minutes left.

He then told me the answer, which I had already coded and commented out because he “didn’t like it.” He looked embarrassed, then asked some closing questions and hung up. 15 minutes later, I got an email from the recruiter saying that I didn’t meet the bar.

It seems like they were just trying to weed me out. No accountability and chaos.