The interview process was first a HR recruiter call and then a 1 hour technical interview. I’ve just finished the interview and can only assume I won’t get the role, but I also would not work for the person who interviewed me either so I guess a win win for us both. It was a standard enough interview by most metrics, other than the interviewer for some reason felt the need to scoff and then say how small the company I’m currently at is when asked about deploying code to production. After which told me that there’s much better competitors in the area. Neither of which are true by most objective metrics. This is besides the point anyway, unsure as to why he’d feel the need to criticise me in this case. Lastly, the interview leet code question was a generic array/matrix one, nothing to do with the particular job, I get it was assessing competency of problem solving, but felt it was rather pointless of a question to ask.

The process: 1. HR screening 30 min. Quite a usual one. The recruiter told about the interview process, the team, and so on. It is supposed to be 1.2 coding interviews, System design, and culture fit. (However, as it turned out, it was not true) 2. Live coding 1h. I would say it is quite usual as well. Not so difficult coding question from leet code. 3. Live coding with a not-so-difficult question. However, the interviewer's hints were leading to the wrong approach. I'm not sure if it was intentional or if the interviewer didn't check the right approach before the interview. At that stage, i started suspecting that something was not right about the company. 4. I thought it was supposed to be a System-Design-like interview. However, it's more experience-focused, with some questions about the approach to projects and a small coding question. I had a feeling that the interviewer was forced to conduct the interview right before the interview with proper preparation. 5. This was supposed to be culture fit + experience talk. However, the interviewer started literally interrogating me about the smallest details of my previous work, which is a product closely similar to Sonatus's (such a coincidence). This was not just experience-related, it was really questioning how the algorithms work. I had to say I cannot reveal such details. In my opinion, the interviewer was trying to pull the NDA information of my previous company.