I first had a call with a recruiter that asked about my technical experience and different projects that I had already worked on. His questions were very basic.

After that, I was brought on-site for a 3-hour interview where I met with a total of 6 engineers in pairs. They asked me various programming questions and had me solve different coding problems on the whiteboard.

The different engineers were very friendly and asked questions to understand my thinking process and to make sure I had made the correct decisions about how to solve the problem. They let me code in my language of choice and iterated on the same problems to make them more difficult.

A week or so after this interview, I received a phone call from the head of engineering so that he could get to know me a little more and decide if I was a good culture fit. Shortly after this call, the recruiters contacted me to discuss an offer.

Q: Design a system that could be used for a public library.