Recruiter outreach initiated the process.

The first round focused on people management, all behavioral.

The virtual onsite included:

• 1 coding/code review (I chose code review)
• 2 system design rounds
• 2 behavioral rounds

All in all, the process took 2.5 months and was very professional throughout.

Give me an example where you assessed a risk that others couldn't see.

This was a bit tricky. Lots of deep dives into my answer.

For example:

• Why did you feel others hadn't foreseen it?
• What processes did you build to ensure you wouldn't be a single point of failure in the future?
• How did you convince them, given that you were the only one who felt it was a risk?
• Would you have been convinced by your own thinking had you been someone external to the team?

Give me an example of when you challenged the status quo. Straightforward question.

Give me an example when you navigated through a complex, ambiguous situation. Straightforward question.

Train booking system design and handling failure scenarios. Relatively straightforward; had practiced a similar question before.

Code review -> MinMaxStack and Depth First Tree Traversal. I was initially a bit nervous since I hadn't done a code review interview before, but I got some practice with a Prepfully.com Google EM, and it proved the easiest round.

How would you set up a geographically distributed team?