Applied online, but also attended a university event. No online assessment.

The first round is a 30-minute talk with the hiring manager, basically going through the resume and some behavioral questions.

The second round is a 1-hour technical round, and it's a backend pair-programming task. I wrote a simple task scheduler and discussed how I can scale this up (distributed system concepts).

The two rounds were 2 weeks apart.

How to scale up your solution? How will you deal with disconnections? (How do you keep metadata fresh?)