The process is essentially 30 minutes with the Head of Engineering, which is then followed up with two back-to-back technical rounds. This is then followed up with additional rounds with the team.

The first round with the Head of Engineering was interesting, though it was pretty much an initial recruiter-style interview. It would have been more worthwhile to extend this to actually benefit from that time and to review the candidate's experience related to the role. However, the interviewer spent most of the 20 minutes talking.

Then came the technical rounds. The coding round was a routine coding challenge. The system design round was just bizarre. The interviewer seemed to have made up the initial scenario two minutes before the call. System design rounds are designed to be generic and vague to evaluate the thought process and attention to detail in deriving a solution. However, Faire's process was ridiculous, where they expected the candidate to create their own problem space. Several follow-up questions to clarify the scenario were met with: "This is your problem." It was evident that there is no respect for diversity of thought and backgrounds. It is expected that individuals fit a mold that has been preconceived by management.

Generic algorithm on CodingPad website.

Loosely defined scenario. Candidates are expected to define their own problem area to focus the conversation on.