A university recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn and recommended that I apply.

Soon after I did, I received a 90-minute HackerRank question. Next, a 1-hour technical interview.

Then, two 1-hour back-to-back technical interviews.

Finally, a 30-minute non-technical interview with an engineering manager.

A week and a half later, I had a Zoom meeting with the recruiter where we discussed my opinions on the process and they shared interviewer feedback.

The whole process took close to two months and 5 hours of interviewing. All of my interviewers were kind and their questions interesting, and I thoroughly enjoyed the process.

I won't say any actual questions, but they were rather practical and not the usual LeetCode style. Generally, they were a mini version of a real, plausible task. They involved writing clear, idiomatic code, using real libraries, and were completely open-resource — yes, Stack Overflow included.

Make sure to explain your work, be open when you don't know something, and ask questions if you need to. They want to know what it would be like to work with you, not whether you can find and implement the most optimized solution in three minutes without hints or debugging.

However, I do suggest familiarizing yourself with APIs/HTTP requests beforehand.