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I had five 45-minute interviews with no breaks in between. There was a lunch break after the first two interviews. Among the five interviews, four were coding interviews, and one was a discussion about my PhD research.

I was contacted by a recruiter. I applied through a referral. I had an initial screening with LeetCode medium questions. I did not meet the standards. The recruiter advised me to apply again after six months.

I had a phone interview, and the first question was very specific to web technology, focusing on the difference between REST and SOAP, along with other very specific questions. Another question required me to write a parser for a language. These ques