Initial Recruiter screening - as per industry standards.

Phone screen - Easy LC.

(The real fun begins...)

Seven rounds of onsite interviews.

Most of the senior interviewers were great. One technical interviewer carried a big ego and was the worst amongst all interviewers. Finally, they had a big say in the panel and cited un-obvious reasons to fail me.

One final observation: for the Principal Engineer level, software engineers were interviewing the candidate. I wish I had flagged this initially and not attended the interview, but I recommend others not to make this mistake. You should be interviewed by people either at or above the level you are interviewing for.

Management rounds involve behavioral questions.

Technical rounds include no LC-style questions.

A design question related to a real-world restaurant industry problem.