A recruiter reached out via LinkedIn. We had a brief initial chat, after which I applied for the position. The next step was a 45-minute manager screen with pretty standard questions about past projects I'd led.

At this point, CrowdStrike gave me a take-home project. The project involved distributed computations and took about 10 hours. After I submitted it, I received positive feedback but was told that, due to timing, another candidate had been offered the position and they were closing the role.

I asked if the recruiter had other open roles, as the feedback seemed positive. It appeared that there were several in-house recruiters working on different but similar roles, and they didn't have much visibility into roles outside their own purview. Eventually, I was put in touch with another recruiter for a similar role, who gave me a system design take-home problem. I had about a week to put together a design document and was then given an hour to discuss it with a couple of engineers. After this, the recruiter said I would receive feedback. However, after the system design interview, I haven't received any feedback or a response to my follow-up emails from the recruiter for the past month.

My impression of CrowdStrike was positive as a company, but their hiring and recruitment process seems disorganized.

Design a virus scan aggregator system.