I applied online, and the process took two weeks.

I've not had a good experience with Faire. I applied, and the recruiter called. There was a standard chat with the recruiter, and a coding round was set up. The first coding round was a LeetCode question. I got the Integer to English Words (LC 273). What threw me off was that I was also expected to write tests for this, which is not something you usually see in these kinds of rounds. I advanced to the next round, which was another LeetCode quite similar to Word Search. This was the only good interviewer I came across.

After that, I had a system design round, which was completely moronic. There were two senior software engineers who had about four to five years of experience and were front-end engineers. They were interviewing a candidate for a back-end role. I want to be very clear that I do not judge engineers by their age and the position that they hold. I have come across absolutely brilliant engineers who are five and ten times better than me that were barely out of college, but these folks had no idea what they wanted. It was a simple Ticketmaster question, and it was a mess. There was a time when the interviewers were arguing with each other. This was a first time for me. It was a proper disaster.

After that, I had a manager round, which was decent. He seemed a bit distracted at times, but it had more or less standard LP questions, with nothing out of the ordinary. After my interview was over, I sent an email to the recruiter thanking her and the engineers for their time, and I made it a point to mention the argument with the interviewers. A day later, I got the rejection email, and the feedback was that my system design skills were quite poor. There were no surprises there. Honestly, I think I dodged a bullet. A good friend of mine also had a similar experience, at least he did not have interviewers arguing. I hope this helps.