Was contacted by a recruiter where I was told I would have two interviews. The first interview was pretty easy we talked about my resume and my schooling. We ended the interview with only one technical question which was to describe a depth first search. The interviewer was very nice and I enjoyed talking to them. The next and final round was a 2 hour long interview with 3 other candidates and 2 employees, a current software engineer and a software designer I believe. We were told about the first half of the interview which was to bring a piece of code to discuss and go through, but the second half was unexpected and I was not made aware of. The second half was a system design question going over API calls and creating database schemas. I think this second half definitely needs to be communicated to applicants, so they can prepare. Other than that, everyone was very friendly throughout the interview process.

Was told to bring a code sample to present for the interview. The interview was also a group interview with two other candidates (should have been the first red flag). There were two interviewers, one was a current engineer, the other was the software engineer director. The director did not say much during the interview, and the current engineer was doing most of the talking. I found him to be very condescending during the interview, and he would chuckle or scoff when I explained something which I did not appreciate. I felt humiliated during this interview process, and I wish I left halfway through. It doesn't end there. They then tell us that there is a 'second phase' interview which was not told to us in any emails I had received. They gave us this large problem regarding API calls and data bases and had all of us candidates (there were 3 of us including myself) solve it in front of them. It took another hour on top of the first hour of the interview we were told about. I found this to be ridiculous. Complete lack of transparency, unprofessional, and waste of time. I wish they had told us there would be two phases to the interview instead of just springing it on us. I spent time preparing the code sample as is, and then they go and do this second phase sneakily. I am so surprised at their arrogance for an education company. I did not appreciate the interviewer, or the lack of transparency. And surprise, surprise, I did not hear from them after that interview and got ghosted. They didn't even have the decency to send me a rejection email after all of that time and preparation I did. So unprofessional all around. Absolutely ridiculous. I do not recommend interviewing at this company to anyone. Since they treat their potential candidates like a piece of crap and don't value the candidate's time I can't imagine what it is like at the company.