Recruiter reached out on LinkedIn (Nov 2021) and described the company, team and role in detail. Also, mentioned an attractive compensation package to get me interested. The next round was a take-home assessment. If you've worked on Python/SQL for a few years it'll be a breeze. 1 hour 15 mins total. 2 SQL & 1 Python: I completed the SQL within 10 mins but the Python question took the rest of time as you had to handle several edge cases. Proceeded to the next round with the Hiring Manager. Discussed previous experience and the tech stacks they used. He was impressed and I moved on to the final virtual onsite round. This is where things got extremely weird. The recruiting coordinator nudged me to download the app (keep in mind there's no Skillz app but some other apk) and asked me to play games. I read in the other reviews that they make candidates signup and play to boost their DAU/MAU but I'm not certain. Virtual onsite was 4 rounds and was split into 2 days. Day1:The first round was supposedly an extension of the Python challenge but it was mainly focused on whether you can pull data from an API (Extract), perform basic Transformation and upsert into a DB (Load). Halfway through it stopped being a coding round and more of a technical Q&A round which was mildly irritating. The 2nd round that day got pushed by 2 days due to interviewer's unavailability. Day2: This was a system design round where you whiteboard a recent project. It was conducted by 2 interviewers one on the Frontend team and didn't really understand most of the details. Why be a part of a technical DE interview when you work on a completely different part of the application? As a result, I had to repeat everything twice. The other person was a DE but joined late and just asked high-level questions: clearly not interested in the process. The 2nd round was with a Data Eng Manager and this was the only most pleasant experience - general behavioral questions. Even before attending the final round (which was postponed by them), received a reject. This was in a way relieving since there were a lot more interviews in my pipeline. Overall did not enjoy the process at all.

Phone screen followed by a 4 hour coding assessment through hackerrank. It was a single data engineering problem (an html dataset which required parsing and sorting) to solve using python. It took me almost around that time to solve the problem. After that, I was called for an onsite interview. It consisted of a technical round, white-boarding round on streaming data infrastructure and a peer interview on one of my past projects. After that onsite, they let me know they were looking for someone senior but then called me back a month later for another onsite. This time, I met the CTO, CEO and had a culture fit interview. Overall, had a good experience.