Initial call with recruiter, followed by a 45-minute call with the architect. Total reported time: 2.5 hours.

Subsequently, I was invited for an onsite interview.

There were 5 rounds with a 1-hour lunch break.

Meeting rooms were not booked. We had to search for available rooms.

Interviewers did not disclose the number of coding questions beforehand. Only one interviewer mentioned he would ask two coding questions: one easy and one hard.

For the last round of the interview, the interviewer was remote. This made it very difficult for her to explain her question and for me to show my thought process. I was standing the whole day in front of the whiteboard, holding a marker.

All rounds went well except the last one.

All data structures and algorithms questions.