I applied online. The process took 2 weeks.

Initial 30 minute call with a recruiter, followed by a short take-home exercise, then an hour long 2nd round technical interview with an engineering manager, then a pretty standard final round of interviews (system design, behavioral, code review). 2nd and 3rd round all remote over Zoom. I had my final round interviews scheduled but ended up cancelling them the night before because I accepted an offer elsewhere.

The offer I accepted was basically a perfect fit from a mission/culture standpoint and that put them slightly above Starburst in my mind. The recruiter seemed annoyed that I cancelled and repeatedly replied to my emails with pressing questions, seemingly trying to find a "real reason" for why I was cancelling. The recruiter seemed to think that it had something to do with the tech stack, when the tech stacks at Starburst and the company I accepted the offer with are in reality very similar. I'm trying to manage the process as professionally as possible, but sometimes when you have 5-6+ final-round interviews in flight, things get hectic. I tried to give them as much notice as I possibly could given the circumstances. It's sad because before this last interaction, I was excited about the company and it seems like they have a lot of interesting technical challenges ahead of them. I wouldn't recommend interviewing with this company based on my experience.

The interview included a system design question, walking through the design of a function to retrieve data from a large file.