Standard interview process for Individual Contributor (IC) kind of role, couple of coding/technical round followed by design discussion round. Which was supposed to be concluded by HR round and offer letter. All my rounds were good but the last step did not happen, they never put an offer or scheduled any discussion. Reason: Budget constraints !! Surprisingly which they have no clue before starting the interview process ? Instead of putting an offer or scheduling a discussion with HR; I was getting cold-call/tele sales kind of call for reducing my expectation for package (how much ? they wont say, but requesting to consider at lower package). They waited couple of weeks and call again with same budget constraints chat, it felt like trying to sale position like local market bargainers.

The process was a bit long in terms of the number of rounds but fun. First round was a written one with two problems to solve. After this had 4 Technical rounds and an HR round. The entire process was very smooth and the HR was very co-operative and empathetic towards any requests.