I applied online. The process took 4 weeks.

Had a first round with a recruiter. This was the second time I interviewed with this person; previously it was for a different role that wasn't aligned with my experience. This time around they were very curt, to the point, and felt rushed. Afterwards, I realised this time around they were using an AI note taker, so it was possible the AI system was just doing a tick-boxing exercise based on my responses. Regardless, I was invited for a second round coding interview.

The exercise was a nonsense LeetCode exercise. I'm a developer with almost 20 years of experience; give me a problem rooted in real-world business logic in line with the kind of problems someone you're going to hire will face. Don't test me like I'm fresh out of university. The problem was simple enough, but the solution they were looking for was very convoluted and open-ended with the potential of lots of edge cases and problems.

One developer led the exercise, but rather than being collaborative and helpful, their input made it more confusing. The other developer, after the initial introduction, said nothing and just highlighted a problem with the code at the end, which I fixed. I could tell I hadn't done well and used my question time at the end to ask what would have been an efficient solution, to which they had no real answer.

Given a collection of votes for a set number of candidates, find the most popular candidate.