Contacted on LinkedIn. The process was smooth, but they asked junior engineers to take the initial rounds.

I had only one phone coding interview. I have close to 12.5 years of experience, and the interviewer was a junior software engineer.

These juniors often do not understand the big picture or know what to ask. They just present coding problems they might have encountered during college and judge experienced professionals based on those.

I was initially told there would be two interviews. After the first one, another junior person said they were not going forward.

I was laughing and felt good that I would not have to work with such people. Splunk loses good people who want to work for the company.

Actually, I solved the programming interview questions in two different ways. I told him that I had made some assumptions to keep it simple and could make it more complex if required.

He seemed unhappy.

No difficult questions. Standard question: How to check if two strings are anagrams of each other.