The HR went through my resume and asked for details of my group projects, and basically all other personal information. She also asked me what'd got me into CS and why I chose my uni.
First had a phone call with a recruiter, then a technical assessment through a third party (with a person, not one of those websites), and then a three hour interview with three members of the team. Two of the three hour segments were coding, and the other was a behavioral.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at MongoDB (New York, NY) in Mar 2026
Interview
1. HR Call discussing the opportunity
2. Karat interview to solve as many leetcode as possible
3. Three interviews in 3 hours including a leetcode round, a behavioral round, and a Object-Oriented round.
* Initial screening calling with a recruiter and then a 1 hour technical interview call using Karat with a pair coding set up using a plain text editor not an IDE
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Half System Design based questions and half technical