SendGrid Sr. Software Engineer interview questions

Initial screen call with HR rep. Hour long call with hiring manager. A lot of out of context questions on certain skills and experience. I finally realized they wanted to hire me for past experience and skills that were not part of the job description. I asked about it, and then let them know I wanted to use my current skills and not deprecated ones. The interview tone changed to a formal politically correct blow off. The interview ended a bit early. No further response even after 3 followup emails from me.

Overall, it’s a 4 step process. Recruiter call, followed by hiring manager (discussed about projects, tech background and small coding problem). Once it is through, there is a online coding challenge. The final round is onsite interview: Team is very friendly and helpful all the time. It’s a 4 round interview: Hiring manager interview Cultural fit interview Coding interview (not so complex, but I could not make it on time with some hints) Design interview (distributed caching design, and some questions on consistent hashing and on AWS) Overall, interview/questions are so not tough and it’s a positive experience with all interviewers. One thing I think they could do better is: provide feedback or response (at least after few days) after the interview is complete.