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It was pretty standard. I switched from the online screen to an onsite process. I decided I didn't want to do an internship and switched from project matching in the internship track to onsite. I had to redo the whole process again, but skipped a few

It was good, with more focus on optimization, data structures, and time complexity. This made it easy to crack in CoderPad, as most of the questions were from LeetCode.

3 months from start to finish: * Call from recruiter * First coding interview (unlocking next ones) * Two more coding interviews + one behavioral * Team matching that went well * Hiring committee, which rejected me despite overall good feedback and