Long. Exhausting. Unprofessional.

The interview process involved several stages:

1. Initial call with the recruiter: This involved going over your CV, experience, and reasons for applying.
2. Hiring manager interview: This focused more on the role, the organization, and your experience in more technical detail. Expect random, quickfire technical questions related to your experience.
3. Engineering Manager interview: This was a technical deep dive into your experience, with many questions around the technical stack.
4. First coding test: A two-stage Hackerrank assessment with another senior developer.
5. Second stage technical test:
   • A Hackerrank "medium challenger" question focused on algorithms.
   • A system design problem for a large social media app.
6. Third stage chat with another developer: Be prepared for a quickfire coding challenge. Although I was told it would be just a chat about the tech and role, I was given a coding problem, and the chat followed up afterward.
7. Meeting with the Program Manager: Discussing the role further. Be prepared to talk about your experience and answer technical questions.
8. Final interview with the Group Product Manager: More discussion about your experience and technical questions about how it aligns with the role.

This amounted to a total of 8 interviews.

Be prepared for extra interviews being added on. Be prepared to talk about your experience on a technical level in all interviews. They would like you to work evenings (if you are hired), to create an overlap with the American team.

All of the technical questions are timed, and you are under pressure to solve them quickly so they can move on to the next one.

From all of the technical tests and coding challenges, I did not manage to complete only one, but I explained how I would solve it, as I have solved it before. The interviewer was very intimidating and constantly made remarks about the time we had. After the interview, on the next day, I looked up the question on Leetcode and solved it. This goes to show how, when candidates are treated poorly, they make mistakes.

After everything, I received good feedback and was told I was a good fit.

And then they ghosted me.

Four weeks passed with absolutely no reply. They were neither saying yes nor no, which was very hard to deal with.

After reaching out numerous times and asking for a status update, at the 4-week mark after completing this absurd process, I was told I wasn't accepted as another candidate was a better fit.

Roku is hands down the worst company I have interviewed with. They were stringing me along, not saying yes or no while seeing if other candidates might do better, and they rejected me when they saw fit.

Another interview report said the exact same thing.

Even if you need a job ASAP, going through all of these stages will take a long time, and they do not make decisions fast. Therefore, I cannot recommend applying if you need a job. I honestly don't know how they even hire people; this is absurd on so many levels.

Not worth the effort whatsoever.

Signed NDA, so I cannot say. Be prepared for medium coding challenges and detailed technical explanations about your experience.