The interview process began with a phone screening conducted by a recruiter, where general questions were asked. Eric informed me that the process would involve six rounds, including multiple LeetCode-style interviews repeated across three rounds.

The first round was an online coding assessment on Codility, featuring LeetCode-style questions. The second round was another easy LeetCode-style problem, also conducted via Codility. In the third round, I spoke with a technical interviewer who focused on my past experience and asked questions related to Java, Kafka, and general backend development.

The fourth round was again LeetCode-style coding, and it was unclear why the same type of assessment was being repeated. The fifth round involved a system design interview.

The final round was a behavioral interview with Engineering Manager Hussain. Unfortunately, it didn’t feel like a meaningful conversation, as he seemed more interested in wrapping up the interview quickly.

I felt useless after going through a six-hour interview.

LRU cache in system design.

Using a hashmap + doubly linked list in LeetCode.