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Online assignment sent by email, LeetCode style coding hard/hard+. Overall, for me, it was a really tough question around simulation, and only one hour was given to understand and write code.

They have very high standards, and it is pretty hard to meet them unless you have startup experience. They seem to focus a lot on scalability. The interviewers were bad communicators and did not explain the requirements clearly. Despite asking follow

The process is incredibly fast-paced and skips the HR fluff. Expect a heavy focus on raw engineering talent and low-level system understanding. After the initial screen, I had to jump into a deep-dive session involving real-world infrastructure chal