A recruiter connected with me regarding the opportunity and set up a technical coding challenge. Coding challenge was pretty standard. Once I was able to complete the code the interviewer asked few basic core java ( overloading/overriding/String immutability) questions.I was asked to come onsite for a 4 hour interview with 5 panelist.

First three interviewers were pretty comfortable to talk to, they asked about my background, gave some whiteboard problems to solve. Last two interviewers were bit cold.

Got a call from the recruiter saying they want to call me onsite again as they were not able to judge my technical skills. I was bit surprised as such senior level engineers after grilling me for 4 hours not able to judge my skills. I went for the second site interview. This time it was for 5 hours with 6 panelist. The interviewers are mostly junior employees freshly out of college.

The interview went pretty well and I was positive about the feedback. After one week the recruiter set some time up to talk where he mentioned that they are not going forward.

The reason that he gave was I am not par with technical answers.

I don't really agree with this feedback as I was able to solve all the white board technical questions (there was no other technical questions).

I think they should have not wasted my time with the second onsite interview. It is frustrating for a interviewee too.

The topics covered are reverse array, linked list reverse, tinyUrl, substring implementation, and class loader.