The interview process involved 5 total interviews. A systems design screening followed by 4 interviews (2 coding, 1 system design, 1 behavioral), with one of them being on site. The process was overall very smooth with fast follow-up between the screen and full interview scheduling. The recruiter was transparent, and the interviewers were all involved during the interviews, following lines of thinking and asking probing questions.

The interview was dominated by repetitive “risk management / situational” questions that felt more like checking boxes than assessing real engineering capability. Several prompts asked for examples of mistakes or “what went wrong” in ways that seemed to expect a specific corporate-style framework answer. The conversation kept circling back to the same theme multiple times, with little time spent validating depth in technical skills.