I applied through a recruiter. The process took four weeks.

Overall, the process was professionally coordinated, but the interview loop did not feel well calibrated to the role I was interviewing for. The technical interview was framed as a real-world system design problem, but quickly narrowed into a specific implementation detail that was not clearly tied back to product requirements or the responsibilities of the role. That made the exercise feel more like deriving a hidden abstraction than working through a realistic scenario. When I asked for more clarity on the purpose and requirements of what we were building, the guidance remained fairly limited.

Another interview was conducted by someone who was audibly very sick, video off, and understandably rushed. Given the company's emphasis on in-person collaboration, I was surprised this segment wasn't rescheduled. Overall, I was surprised by how little the loop explored the specific experience and responsibilities the role seemed to call for. It felt more like a company-specific technical screen mixed with a generic management and philosophy conversation than a targeted evaluation for this role.