The interview process was extremely long, with a total of six interviews (three of which were essentially the same type of interview). I'm sure something can be done to make the process less repetitive and more efficient. On the positive side, some of the feedback was useful.

Recruiter screen - Standard questions around past experiences, role, expectations and so on Staff Engineer round - In depth technical questions around your experience, I really enjoyed this as it wasn't bare minimum surface level checkboxes but they really challenged me on complex problems I solved Moved onto onsite Live coding round - A mix of leetcode style and practical stuff I really enjoyed this round as it was a hybrid of both. As long as you have solid foundation of data structures and algorithms and also your everyday the way you code like concurrency, best practices, multithreading you should do just fine System design round - Probably one of the best design rounds of my career. Technically very in depth and challenging, it wasn't another SQL or NOSQL database choice they wanted me to go into deep low level details on various components so really understand the tradeoffs and discuss your design decisions. It's not about how much you got done but how well you know why you're making a choice and justify them. HM round - Behavioral questions on past experiences, very role specific and quite challenging Culture round - How you fit with the company culture, this was a lot more depth than I thought so really know your stuff on resume and what you did and what impact it made. You will get material to prepare before every round and that's way more than enough and most people I met weren't so difficult even if I made mistakes I was able to comfortably work through with them and it felt more like a pairing session across. The process was very smooth and the recruiter made sure the experience was very positive and they were quite accommodating with schedules in case of changes. The people I met for sure were technically good and also had good attitude to navigate engineering problems so I ended up accepting the offer