I applied through a recruiter.

Recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn and we scheduled a brief call discussing my background and the company. After that was a 45-min technical. I got asked a standard leetcode medium. Heard back quickly, and moved onto the onsite, which was composed of 3 45-min interviews.

This was split into 2 parts, the first was virtual and the second was in-person at their mountain view office. The virtual part was a behavioral interview with an engineering VP. Pretty straightforward questions, such as:

• "tell me about a mistake"
• "why do you want to work at otter"
• "what gets you up to go to work everyday?"

The first onsite interview was with an engineering manager. She asked me to draw the architecture of one of my projects on a whiteboard from memory and asked me a few questions about it. After that, she asked me a pretty common leetcode question.

The 2nd onsite interview was with an engineer, who gave me a 2 part non-leetcode question. The problem had a pretty long setup and a lot of parameters, so it was more about keeping track of all the details and being able to communicate your solution clearly.

Got the offer 3 business days later. Overall, everyone at the company seemed very competent and talented. A bit surprised I passed.

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