The first talk was with the recruiter, who reached out to me via LinkedIn. He gave me an overview of the company, the product and the interview process. Next I had to take an online coding assignment. It was straightforward, but I did have a typo I couldn't catch, that made me fail a lot of the tests. After I figured this out, I reached out to the recruiter, and it did not prevent me to move on to the phone screen. The phone screen was an hour discussion with a manager, which included questions about my past projects, and also a question about 'how would you implement a system that does this and that', on which we iterrated together. Overall it was a very pleasant experience, and I could sense that the interviewer is there to assist me, and not to test me. The onsite included 3 interviews, which I selected to do over 3 different days. The first session was a coding session, for a problem where I had to use some API and wrap it with additional logic. The focus was on edge cases and correctness. The second session was a code review session; first I had to review sample code and comment on it, and second I had to write some code, re-write it as requirements changes, and talk it through with the interviewer. The third session was a system design question around databases and API to execute queries. The focus was on high level components, and the interaction between them. After the onsite, I was extended an offer.

I was approached by the recruiter and went through four remote interview sessions. First was about my past experiences, motivation and also about the company & product. The other were technical focused on programming (API design), distributed system design/optimisation and database systems. All the interviewers and recruiters were very professional, patient and helpful, and the meetings ran in a pleasant, low-stress atmosphere. This is a top-quality recruitment process. It took a long while to get the feedback, but it was all happening during year-break/holidays season, so I consider the wait time justified.