What if the interview result is something you could never think of? Have you ever experienced a scenario where an interview gets canceled 5 minutes before it starts, and you keep waiting until the panel joins it (lol)?

Here is my interview experience. The entire interview process took over a month.

The process took over 2 weeks before my actual interview was scheduled.

Round 1: Coding Round: Interviewer asked two questions.

• Two sum problem
• Valid parenthesis problem

Round 2: Site Reliability Engineer Expertise Interview

• Questions about availability, scalability, partition tolerance.
• Deployment process
• Questions about how to make the system more resilient.

Round 3: Architecture/System Design. Interviewer asked to design an N-Tier architecture for employees to post their daily status.

Round 4: Cross-Functional (XFN) (People) Interview. Interview started with a lot of "Sorries" from the panel because her video was not turning on. The overall interview was just for 15 mins.

• Tell me a time you faced a challenge.
• Tell me a time you resolved a cross-functional conflict. (A similar question on this)

Round 5: Behavior, job fit and Partnership Interview. A lot of behavioral questions. Below are a few I can recollect.

• Tell me a time everyone opposed your decision.
• Tell me a time you trained a member of your team.

I am seriously not sure what made the panel come up with such a rejection reason. I got a rejection reason as I was receiving assistance in answering in the behavioral round.

Never dishearten yourself for such outcomes. Things like this happen. Do not take anything others say personally.