2-3 digital interviews, take home coding assignment, call to discuss assignment + system design exercise and a final call with the director. I think the interview process had a good format, with open-ended questions designed more like peers discussing technology rather than rapid fire questions-type of interviews. It was difficult (as it should) but fair and efficient

Very weird process. Had a call with the recruiter who then invited me to a call with a manager. Manager asks me about my previous projects. Keeps saying "impressive" throughout the call. I get a rejection just after that saying I need more experience in "DB architecture". Strange when no one actually asked me about it. I have done DB sharding and partitioning on live production systems, only if someone asks me, I can tell them all about it. I felt like I was just trolled. May be the recruiter wanted to fill their calendar with calls with no purpose. IDK.