The process started with a quick overview phone call with the recruiter, who then set up an initial technical phone screen.

The initial technical phone screen consisted of the interviewer explaining the role, asking a few knowledge-based questions, and then explaining the take-home assignment.

The take-home assignment was the main portion of the interview and took me a good chunk of time to complete. After submitting the completed code, their team reviewed it, and then the last step was a panel interview.

The panel interview lasted about 90 minutes, with about half of that focusing on questions and review of the code I had written. After that, there were several algorithms, data structures, and C/C++ questions (no coding though), as well as a few behavioral-type questions.

During the code review, they asked why I made many of the decisions I did. At times, it felt like they were implying there might have been a better way to do various things. In general, however, it seemed they wanted to ensure I understood the trade-offs of my choices.