You first meet with a recruiter for an informal discussion about the position and the company, standard affairs. The next step in the process is outsourced, so you are presented with pointless algorithm questions from a Russian outsourcer that has no affiliation with the company. I was pretty disappointed that the company decided to outsource the interview process; it feels completely lazy and left a bad impression on the company before I even started the interview.

The questions that are asked via Karat are pointless algorithm questions that have nothing to do with day-to-day engineering practices and everything to do with filtering out people that decided it's pointless to grind interview questions on LeetCode.

Truly an absolutely lazy interview process that speaks about the culture of the company, in my opinion. Don't waste your time.

Pointless algorithm questions from a subset of computer science you only ever bother to study when you are looking for a new job, because the majority of companies, like Peloton, are lazy in defining their interview structure.