I applied through a referral. The overall process was very pleasant; everyone was very responsive, very nice, and easy to talk to. The first step was an informational interview.

I really liked that the interview included a coding exercise to complete at home at your own pace. It is very representative of real work and a very good indicator of the real skills and talent needed.

1. The informational interview was about half an hour, basically the hiring manager telling me about the industry, company, team, and culture. It was very informative and gave a very good idea about the team.

2. Then, the hiring manager sent me a coding exercise to complete at home with no time limit. After submitting the coding exercise, I received some code review comments, made some improvements, and then moved on to the technical discussion.

3. The technical discussion was basically going through the code I submitted and discussing the implementation, data structures and algorithms used, and design trade-offs.

4. Then, I did a remote technical interview with one of the senior engineers. This involved going through a coding question. It was very nice to talk to the engineer and very helpful.

5. Then came the onsite phase where I had a discussion with leadership team members. This was more like fun and interesting conversations rather than interviews.

Coding exercise to complete at home as if it was a component or feature you are to build at work, using the same quality and production level.

Trade-offs and design choices in the coding exercise.

Coding question that cares more about how to approach and think about it rather than the final correct answer.