Applied online. The recruiter quickly responded and set up a call where they described the position, and I gave my background. The next step was to do the coding challenge – create an in-memory DB. They recommended 30 minutes to 90 minutes for it, but I spent about 3 hours, just being thorough and making sure everything was correct.

A week later, a technical phone screen was scheduled. The interviewer asked me to describe a technical challenge I had faced and then asked me to code a solution to a question on a shared document. The question wasn't too difficult. After I coded the solution, they added a few requirements and asked me to code those up. As soon as I got it working, the interviewer basically said, "Great! Awesome!" and moved on. They never really asked follow-up questions or wanted me to discuss my implementation or ways to improve it or anything.

I got my rejection email the next day. I was a bit surprised since I felt my solution to the coding question was good, and the interviewer seemed fine with it. I didn't receive any feedback on why I was rejected either. I was also a bit frustrated because the initial coding challenge that I did was never brought up at all, so I felt like I had kind of wasted some time doing it. I will say that everyone (all the recruiters, coordinators, interviewers) was super nice, and they were efficient and timely in letting me know about their decision.

Create an in-memory DB.