A recruiter found me on Hired, then reached out on LinkedIn, which I thought was odd, perhaps to skip out on paying Hired.com.

The recruiter provided good information, explained the role, and talked about the process, which involved a coding challenge, then an onsite interview.

The recruiter asked a few trivia questions, then sent a link to a CodeSignal test. It was a 90-minute timed test with two medium LeetCode questions and a SQL stored procedure question combining three tables and performing counts and aggregates – not trivial.

Overall, it was more difficult than the Amazon interview process. I don't know how you could pass that without having seen both coding challenges before.

IMO, it's a way too high a bar for a company like Zoom, which sounded like it was in chaos with re-orgs and replacing an entire 500-person engineering organization from China with US-based employees. I suspect there is some gatekeeping going on with engineers not being happy that so many people were getting the hook and replaced wholesale.

LeetCode: Making File Names Unique

SQL stored procedure to aggregate data from 3 tables and calculate remaining available seats, similar to one on Chegg.

"You're working on the tech support team of an airline company, and your boss has asked you to implement a feature that shows the number of available seats on every flight.

Information about the airline is stored in three tables."