First stage interview was a 30 min chat with a recruiter who asked me about my experience and then some technical questions around DB transactions, microservices patterns and java concurrency. The next stage was a 1-hour long live coding exercise (not leedcode or hackerrank type questions) but you have to be very fast. It is split around 15 min talk to make sure you understand the requirements and then 45 to code a service. The exercise is very easy in my opinion even for a non senior engineer. However, they sent you the requirements over the chat window and here is where the fun part begins... The text of the exercise comes deliberately confusing and talks about requirements that you will not need to implement so you have to spend time talking with interviewer about what you will need to include and what not. I was like ok do I need to implement feature A ? No you don't need that. Ok and what about feature B that is described in the text? No you can ignore that.. On top of that in whatever time you are left to go all guns blazing and start coding the interviewer interrupts you and questions your decisions, so you have to stop and justify them and by the end you need to have an pretty much exhaustive set of unit tests of a maintainable and extensible solution. All in all the exercise is pretty easy but it seems that they value a lot machine gun type of coders. The interviewer also told me they are dealing with a lot of concurrency issues which is no wonder if they expect you to code so fast... I'd have to say that interviewers are polite and but not very experienced for this type of coding exercises.