I applied through an employee referral. The process took six months.

• Initial call with the CTO going into my past experience and digging into some technical examples.
• After the call, I was sent a take-home test, which took around three hours to complete.
• Follow-up call to review the code written for the take-home test, which was surprisingly in-depth for an early-stage interview.
• Final stage was an in-person interview that lasted about three hours, split into three sections: general technical interview, system design, and role fit.All of the sections focused on real-world examples and didn't involve any brain teasers or writing algorithms on a whiteboard. Overall, I had a really positive experience interviewing. Everyone was really friendly, happy to answer any questions I had, and all of the tests and questions felt fair and relevant. The only negative was the amount of time it took to get a response at times. The whole process took roughly six months, but this was delayed on my end to some extent.

The focus was on distributed system design and concurrency. There were no LeetCode-type questions.