Two back to back 1 hour phone screens - One Soft Skills and One Technical Since I was in the bay area I opted for a onsite as these were back2back interviews. From the get go the experience was not great. While I applied for a Senior Staff Engineer role, I was asked to apply for a Staff Engineer role instead as the one I applied got filled recently. That sounded like low-balling but that wasn't the bad part. It took three attempts for the coordinator to book the 2 interviews after a blackout for a week from the recruiter who made me literally apply for the role during the phone as she was impressed with my resume. First Attempt - Recruiting coordinator scheduled one onsite interview each for 2 days and that was rediculous Second Attempt - She then scheduled and confirmed interview one day before the actualy date and cancelled the interviews literally early in the morning on the interview day. Third Attempt - She scheduled interview and notified me at 7 AM in the morning for 11 AM interview. I was tired and wanted to be done with it so I said yes. But when I reached their office I was made to wait for 40 minutes as the coordinator wasn't available to receive me, then the interviewer was in SF office and not sunnyvale and then there was no room and then the room that I finally got didn't have a working video calling option As if these signs weren't enought I interviewed with this self obsessed guy who said he would finish the interview in 10 minutes so that I can still do the techncial round and how it was a waste of his time to even do this interview. Once the interview started, he kept on talking about himself for 40 minutes instead of asking me any real questions. I tried to interject and try to relate my experience with what he was saying but he wouldn't stop boasting about how damn good he was. The technical round was the only thing that went well but the interviewer was hung up with an optimaztion for a not so used flow in the algorithm even though I did mentioned to him the reason why I wasn't optimizing it for the flow I feel sad that I wasted so much time for this company

First there is an exploratory call from the recruiter. The details of the open position, the fitment and the expectations are discussed. An email communication from the recruiter follows explaining the several rounds of interviews. Hints are provided for preparing well for the interviews. Thereafter, the process is swift - as per the availability shared by the interviewer, the interviews are promptly scheduled without any delay. The interviews happen. Interviewers are very cordial and professional. Good experience with recruiters as well as interviewers.