The process took 2 months.

One of the worst candidate experiences I have had as an interviewee. There were 5 rounds that happened over 2 months because they insisted on having a round a week with many delays.

• The take home assignment took 2 hours to complete but the evaluation took 3 weeks!
• I had to constantly follow up to make sure I was still in the process.
• They scheduled the final round a week out and canceled an hour before the interview and requested a reschedule!
• In my previous system design interviews, the process has typically been collaborative and conversational, with the interviewer providing clarification, answering questions, and discussing trade-offs as the design develops. In this case, the interviewers appeared to prefer observing silently rather than engaging in that dialogue. As a result, I became increasingly confused as to what exactly the expectations for this round were.

Eventually they decided to pass but offered me a software engineer 2 position. Mind you I have been working as a senior software engineer at another big tech company for 5 years.

Overall a slow and flawed interview process and I wonder if they were even seriously hiring for the position considering the delays and cancellations and eventual downlevel.

No live coding, take home, hiring manager and 2 system design rounds