Eight weeks.... the interview process took EIGHT weeks and after three rounds, I was not moving forward.

In the second round, I was told that I would be interviewing with an engineer and an engineering manager. Imagine my surprise and anxiety when six people showed up for a committee interview.

If I had been told this, and told that I was under consideration for multiple roles (and what roles they were), I would have been better prepared for the other roles, such as a Site Reliability Engineer.

After 1.5 weeks (and my follow-up emails ignored after 1 week), I was finally informed that I would be progressing to the next round. They failed to inform me or answer when I asked with what team(s) I would be speaking.

Third round was more of the same. Basic software questions about thread safety, Big-O, Streams and Options, and a few coding questions (practical ones, not LeetCode). It then shifted into an SRE interview and what one would do in this situation, or how would one create a playbook for disaster recovery.

It then took two more weeks to inform me I wouldn't be moving forward. This was also after my follow-ups with the recruiter went unanswered.

Aside from this, the conversations with the engineers were great! A good amount of topics were discussed with some questions that made me dig deep 20 years ago to the underlying structures under the hood of data structures. I was surprised I had retained that information because never once had I have to put that to use.

Was asked about clean code, SOLID, and my thoughts on them. Also, similar thoughts on Agile/Scrum.