I applied online. The process took two weeks.

It was a pretty classic timeline:

• A screening from a recruiter
• One technical phone interview
• Onsite interviews in Palo Alto

Technical questions were fairly easy and covered different aspects, such as API design, SQL, basic algorithms, previous experiences, and system design. No questions were asked regarding time or space complexity.

An interview was a coding session using an actual IDE, which was quite refreshing. It included some plumbing between a REST controller and a service, alongside some math to compute and return averages from a list of values provided by a service.

Another interview was a discussion with a product team member and was not really an interview. The interviewers mentioned themselves that they are very picky, and they indeed are.

The bad part was that there was no real feedback after the interview, just an email saying that another candidate was preferred, and no further information could be obtained. The overall process could have been better organized.

The process included the following tasks:

• Design a REST API for a cart system.
• Given two linked lists of integers, create an algorithm to return a linked list containing the sum of the two inputs, with one answer.