I applied online. The process took two weeks.

During the entire process, I dealt with five different HR people, none of whom provided any meaningful information or answered questions beyond scheduling the next stages of the interview process. The initial screen was thirty minutes. Then there was a technical stage of one hour. The recruiter said it was going to be a technical conversation, but it was a live coding challenge. It was hard, but pretty well designed and carried out.

Then I was scheduled for two rounds one after another. Again, there was no information on what they would be or what to expect, and emails to the recruiter were unanswered. The first was a weird mutation of a system design interview where the focus was not on architecture design, but on minute details of the literal API request structure. I didn't get to do the second stage that day because forty-five minutes in, one of the interviewers went off camera, and I started getting event cancellation emails shortly after. Mind you, I was still working on the first stage with them when they sent me an email about having to reschedule the second stage, only to reject me the next day. It threw me off completely. My impression is that it was an unprofessional, chaotic, and amateurish process, with the coding challenge being the only highlight.

Live coding challenge. System design.