Phone screens to establish initial contact and assess basic fit for a particular team.

Travel for 5 in-person interviews, mainly focusing on coding, design discussions, and general CS knowledge over the course of a day, including lunch.

Final travel to meet 2 more people later.

Then, several weeks of background checks and a final offer.

One interesting interview was a "find out how much you know very quickly" interview. Questions included:

• What's a hash function?

  • How can it be used as part of a dictionary?
  • If you're designing a hash function for a class that will be used as part of a dictionary lookup, what things should you consider?

• Sketch a design for a tree-like data structure, and then an algorithm for depth-first search.

• What are precision and recall? How are they defined? Why are they defined this way, not some other way? (Note: the position I was applying for was on a data/machine learning project, so this certainly wasn't an overspecialized question.)