Referred by an employee, directly onsite, no phone interview.
There were 4 rounds, all technical problems, mostly algorithm and data structure. A few fundamental CS questions and resume questions were asked.
All the coding problems were pretty new, and I had met similar ones in my previous coding exercises.
The questions were more flexible than at other companies:
Design a data structure representing HTML (general tree design).
Scalable matrix.
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