I was referred by an existing employee. After waiting for weeks for them to contact me, they sent me a coding challenge. The challenge was an easy, 45-minute exercise on HackerRank, oriented to a problem you might find daily at Yelp.

After completing the challenge, my contact told me that the recruiter said I didn't do it, which should have been a red flag. After some back and forth, they found my submission.

Following that, I had a 20-30 minute background interview with the recruiter to discuss the position. Then, I had a 45-minute behavioral interview (phone) with one of their engineers, which included standard behavioral questions.

Lastly, I had a 4-round onsite interview during an entire morning, in a 4-hour span:

• 1 system design
• 2 live coding
• 1 behavioral

The system design and behavioral interviewers were really nice and overall great. The two live coding interviewers were really bad.

• Their accent was very hard to understand, to the point I needed to ask them to repeat themselves multiple times.
• They provided very poor explanations of the problems.

The main issue was with the second live coding interviewer. From the start, I noticed zero engagement from his end; clearly, he didn't care. He didn't care enough to share his camera, even though everyone else did during the rest of the interviews. He also didn't care to properly explain the problem.

Even though, overall, I did well, they kept me waiting for feedback for six weeks (the recruiter said it takes up to two weeks for the decision). During that time, I received weekly emails for the first 3-4 weeks from the recruiter stating, "they were waiting for feedback."

In the end, I received a generic email from the recruiter saying that the position was closed and they were no longer hiring.

All the interviews were easy, but the experience was extremely poor.

General behavioral questions:

• Workplace problems
• Frustration