There were a total of 8 interviews over a 3-4 week period.
First interview was with a recruiter; second interview was a high level technical/culture fit interview with a SRE, the 3rd and 4th interviews were group interviews with senior engineers on various aspects of design and coding. A VP for engineering conducted the 5th interview on cross organizational interaction with the 6th interview with the CTO on WASM, WASI and contributing to opensource projects. The 7th interview was with a HR VP on culture with all the standard soft skill questions (what are you passionate about? Describe a time when you had difficulty with a coworker. etc) the final interview was with the hiring manager around how to handle challenges the group was facing.
After a month of interviews it took another month for them to say they were reevaluating the job requirements and would let me know once they reset expectations of the position.
How would you improve reliability within our network design?
How would you introduce governance processes to a team that has grown so fast that process was often set aside to meet deadlines?
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Fastly Senior Principal Engineer role in United States.
Fastly's interview process for their Senior Principal Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Fastly's Senior Principal Engineer interview process in United States.