Phoner with hiring manager who asks one LeetCode medium, behavioral questions, and some light software design. Recruiters are quite nice and the scheduling process is not difficult.

Onsite was awful. You're expected to do two LC medium-hards in an hour w/ no hints. One being one of the most downvoted questions on LC. The questions and possibly the test cases were literally copy & pasted from LeetCode. I knew the first but not the second. Coderpad was also running choppy.

The second technical round is a "project" round. They instruct you to come prepared with a boilerplate app in which you need to implement a simple set of specifications. Think a toy todo list app. I had set up a Sinatra app with ActiveRecord beforehand, but at the beginning of the interview, I made a mistake naming my models while initially migrating the db.

To continue with my example, I named my "list item" class "ListItem." This threw off the ActiveRecord relations, as it read my naming as implied namespacing in a way that was difficult to debug. Classic ActiveRecord/Rails burn. While debugging, my interviewer gave me counterproductive suggestions--he thought Sinatra wasn't loading classes properly. I eventually figured the issue out and renamed the table, but didn't have time to complete the remaining views & endpoints.

There's an API/systems design round. I didn't get feedback here and would be surprised if it was negative. I'd describe this question as oriented toward the design of an application than a "system at scale."

The hiring manager round is the sort where you're on the hook to ask questions the entire time.

"Do 2 difficult LC's in less than an hour"