I applied online.

• HR phone screen
• Coding round
• System design round
• Collaboration round
• Culture fit round

It was very time-consuming. The coding round was via HackerRank with a lead engineer and was surprisingly quite pleasant. The design round was also on HackerRank, drawing a diagram, explaining it, and discussing it with the Principal Engineer, which was a good experience too. Collaboration with a product manager was behavioral and a good experience too. Culture fit was about whether the hiring manager saw you as a fit into their view of how they want the role to operate, based on your past experience examples.

It would have been a better experience to do the culture fit as the first round rather than the last. There is no point in wasting so much time if the culture expectations don't fit from either end, and it's strange that candidates don't get to meet their potential direct manager until so late in the process.

Give me an example of how your team was falling behind in delivery, and what did you do to turn it around?