I applied online. The process took 2 weeks.
The process was pretty standard: a call with the recruiter, a short talk with the hiring manager, and a LeetCode-like coding session. The coding session experience was quite poor. The two engineers appeared on the call and started the discussion by playing the role of supportive collaborators, saying that they were there to help me through the process and that it was their goal to have me succeed. I never heard them say a word in the following 55 minutes. They just kept it very quiet. I presented my solution, which was suboptimal as I missed some bits of the problem at the very beginning of the interview, but they never navigated me. Overall, it was poor engineering of pretending to be playing a bigger role than they are skilled to do.
The question was at a LeetCode medium level.
The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Grafana Labs Staff Software Engineer role.
Grafana Labs's interview process for their Staff Software Engineer roles is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Grafana Labs's Staff Software Engineer interview process.