The initial call lasted an hour and consisted mostly of quick-fire questions about tech relevant to the role I applied for. The initial email provided some hints about what topics to focus on. The interviewer also shared a lot of information about the role and team.

The second interview was a live coding interview conducted over HackerRank. The questions were pretty straightforward, including a few string manipulation questions, a recursive function, and parsing a config file with regex. The interviewers were not very engaged. When I asked if I could look at documentation for a Python function, the interviewer responded with "Uh, probably not," which was confusing. When I asked questions, I had to repeat myself because they were doing something else. This interview was scheduled for one hour but took closer to two. I got two out of six questions correct and received an automated rejection email after this stage.

I would have liked to see them make more of an effort to set the tone and be clear upfront about the interview rules. I also think documentation should have been allowed.