I applied via the company's career site, and a recruiter reached out the next day to schedule a short HR call. During this call, they asked about my experience with some tech stacks.

Next, a 1-hour phone interview was scheduled for the following week. It involved questions about API design, REST/RPC concepts, and my previous projects. The call concluded with a medium LeetCode question, which I solved using Coderpad.

A recruiter reached out the next day to say they wanted to move forward with a virtual onsite interview. There were five 1-hour rounds:

• 1st round: One medium LeetCode question + technical deep-dive into some frameworks.
• 2nd round: One easy LeetCode question + API design + high-level system design questions + questions about caching and SSL.
• 3rd round: Behavioral questions + career goals.
• 4th round: High-level system design of a marketplace system + one easy LeetCode question.
• 5th round: Questions about REST concepts and OOP concepts + one medium LeetCode question.

Overall, I found the coding questions to be doable with sufficient practice. The design questions were also straightforward with enough preparation and experience. The technical framework deep-dive was the most challenging, as it required understanding the theory behind technologies I used daily but hadn't explored in depth.

I heard back from the recruiter about a week later, indicating an offer was forthcoming.