I gave an online programming test last year, after which I was perhaps not short-listed. This year, I contacted the recruiters again and was scheduled for a technical interview over Skype.

The first round went well. There were design and implementation questions related to distributed architecture, which I am already doing, and questions about my work experience and technical skills.

After this first round, I was invited for another round a couple of days later. However, it had to be rescheduled to a later time with different interviewers due to logistical reasons.

For my second interview, also on Skype, only one of the two interviewers was present. He asked me a bit about myself, my work experience, skills, and why I wanted to work at Grab. He also posed a few technical coding questions.

I solved the coding questions and wrote code fairly well, though I was unsure about what the interviewer aimed to test and why. He asked if I had ever traveled outside the country, why I wanted to work for Grab, and was insistent on finer boundary cases or implementation details (like the implementation of a multi-level hash map), which, unlike in interviews I have previously given, are better left to the actual implementation.

Even though I answered all his questions fairly well, and he seemed satisfied, telling me at the end that I could expect another round of interviews, I have not received any communication from them regarding my process in weeks. It could be a rejection, but the process seems to have been abandoned by them, making me feel as though I could have better saved my time by not interviewing with them.

What is eventual consistency?