I was contacted by their recruiter on LinkedIn. She was extremely polite and professional, and provided clear compensation options from the start.

Our LinkedIn discussion was followed by a short phone call, which was great and helped me decide if this job was a good fit for me.

I had two interview rounds after this.

The first one was mostly a bunch of trivia questions:

• "What is this piece of code doing?"
• "How would you accomplish X thing on Y operating system?"

At this point, I even disagreed with one of my interviewers regarding some questions, and we had a good discussion based on this. I really liked that I could have a different opinion and that we discussed it.

The second interview was focused on data structures and algorithms, but I did not have to write code for any LeetCode-style problems. Instead, we discussed a bunch of problems and different approaches to solving them. I think this is a better way of including DSA in your interviews.

Q: What was your career path so far?