I applied online. The process took two months.

The interview was in four different stages.

• Technical coding round (Remote) - 1 hr: The interviewer will ask you to complete a coding question on one of the coding platforms while being monitored. It was a reasonably simple question and was not at the level of LeetCode medium or hard.
• Behavioral Interview - two rounds of one hour each (Remote): Questions regarding your strengths, weaknesses, and "explain about a time you ..." type questions. They have two one-hour rounds for this, which seemed excessive as most of the questions are repeated, and for me it was back-to-back. I felt like if both the interviewers were present on the first call, we could have saved both of us a lot of time.
• System Design (On-site): They asked me to come to the Dublin office and attend a system design interview. You will have to complete it on a whiteboard while being monitored by a senior developer. Back-and-forth with the developer is allowed, and they try to guide you through the process.

Up until this point everything was smooth. They had asked all the candidates to come up to Dublin two days previous to this interview round so as to "mingle" with the other candidates. This was really weird because you were talking and having drinks and food with people who were basically your competitors. I had never experienced something like this before, and everyone I talked to at this event said the same thing as well. It felt like they were trying to overcompensate for having issues with the company culture in the past.

After the system design interview, the very next day I got a congratulatory email saying that I had successfully passed all the interview rounds and they would soon reach back to me to talk to me about the next steps. However, they also mentioned that until I receive the offer letter, nothing is set in stone. This was also extremely weird because it basically said that I passed all four rounds of interview, but we don't know if we can offer you a position yet.

The recruiter reached out to me and told me that she'll let me know the decision within one week. One week became two weeks, and two weeks became three weeks. After a month of the final interview, I again reached out to the recruiter via email, and she basically replied with a standard rejection template. This was pretty infuriating as they strung me along for a month and didn't even have the decency to give any feedback on why I was rejected.

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