I was approached by the recruiter and went through four remote interview sessions. First was about my past experiences, motivation and also about the company & product. The other were technical focused on programming (API design), distributed system design/optimisation and database systems. All the interviewers and recruiters were very professional, patient and helpful, and the meetings ran in a pleasant, low-stress atmosphere. This is a top-quality recruitment process. It took a long while to get the feedback, but it was all happening during year-break/holidays season, so I consider the wait time justified.

The first talk was with the recruiter, who reached out to me via LinkedIn. He gave me an overview of the company, the product and the interview process. Next I had to take an online coding assignment. It was straightforward, but I did have a typo I couldn't catch, that made me fail a lot of the tests. After I figured this out, I reached out to the recruiter, and it did not prevent me to move on to the phone screen. The phone screen was an hour discussion with a manager, which included questions about my past projects, and also a question about 'how would you implement a system that does this and that', on which we iterrated together. Overall it was a very pleasant experience, and I could sense that the interviewer is there to assist me, and not to test me. The onsite included 3 interviews, which I selected to do over 3 different days. The first session was a coding session, for a problem where I had to use some API and wrap it with additional logic. The focus was on edge cases and correctness. The second session was a code review session; first I had to review sample code and comment on it, and second I had to write some code, re-write it as requirements changes, and talk it through with the interviewer. The third session was a system design question around databases and API to execute queries. The focus was on high level components, and the interaction between them. After the onsite, I was extended an offer.