The process took about a week.

The whole thing involved four interviews:

• Coding Interview
• Architecture Interview
• Behavioral Interview
• Culture Fit Interview

I did not move forward past the coding interview, even though it went really well and the interview ended with my interviewer saying that I definitely passed. But I know this happens sometimes for all kinds of reasons.

The thing that made this a negative experience for me is that TA seemed like they were only considering me out of a sense of obligation because I listed someone higher up as a connection of mine in my application. Our interactions felt rushed and insincere, like they didn't want to waste any more time than they had to on me.

The rejection email I received after the coding interview seemed more about absolving them of any further expectation of responsiveness. The way it was written was confusing, since they made it seem like it was based on my interviewer's feedback, but they didn't specify at all what that feedback was. For all I know, they could have just lied about it.

I followed up asking for clarification since I received positive feedback at the end of the interview, but I never heard back.

I know hiring teams have their hands full since the market is packed with good engineers right now, but for me, this was the difference between a positive interview with just a disappointing outcome and a negative interview experience overall.

Repair a database from logs by transforming a list of transaction DTOs to a collection of billing status objects. This involves defining and instantiating a BillingStatus class.