Found profile through hired.com 1. 1 hour coder pad: Same question used. Look up the company name in leetcode I found it in a discussion thread. The person asking the question was very poor in her interviewing skills. I had to teach her a thing or two regarding time and space complexity. 2. Moved to onsite stage. First HR call highly unprofessional and funny. The person didn't have HR experience since they moved from a product? sales? role to HR role. Mentioned he had no interest in my answers but he had to ask because of process. okay... 3. Technical screen: Not your typical coding interview. They allow google and basically use logic to use time delta (use time library) to charge a person rent every month after due date etc. 4. Design a transaction system with an archaic system. Payments? Something similar. Very junior person asking system design questions which makes it tough for them to understand your solution. 5. Hiring Manager call: Uninterested. Couldn't wait for it to get done. 6. Ghosted after the onsite. No response. Nice people, but their process is not mature enough.

I was approached through a hiring site (vettery) in the middle of the summer. I was looking for a small company where the challenges are not fully defined and there is more impact. My journey consisted of 3 parts: * Take home challenge, which I enjoyed and removed the pressure of talking through implementation and feeling judged (gave me a chance to explore new tech as well :D) * Virtual on-site was great and I appreciated the flexibility. It was broken down into 2 parts: 1) problem solving, and design 2) culture and fit, and deep dive on previous projects. Those were done in 2 separate days, which I loved! It made me realize that they are thinking about the candidates’ state of mind (we are not going on-site, so there is room to have the interviews in different days). * One extra coding practice (they wanted more data points for problem solving that was not easy to deduce from the take-home challenge) I learned a lot about the teams’ chemistry during my interviews. I really enjoyed the conversations and they gave me the confidence to go through the interview without feeling judged.