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The first round technical interview was a medium LeetCode problem done live. The answer involved turning a nested loop into a looped binary search. We then moved on to a discussion of solving certain scaling and technical performance problems at the

I first had an HR phone screen, followed by two technical coding interviews over the next two weeks. I was rejected at this stage, but usually there is an additional Hiring Manager interview afterward.

Technical rounds were nice and smooth. However, the hiring manager round was a very bad experience. The manager seemed to care less about my personal experience and ignored what I was saying. The apparent reason was my lack of big-tech internship ex