Company reached out to me via a recruiter. Both the recruiter and the company itself made the process simple and painless. After initial meeting with a team lead, I was told the same day that they would like to move forward with me and within a week and a half I was hired. I was placed in a fantastic R&D engineering team and both salary and benefits were clearly explained by the (wonderful) HR department. The R&D hiring process is unique and focuses on a mixture of both technical/coding questions and mind-benders/logic questions (akin to the famous Google Hiring Questions). As a base, you should know what you say you know code-wise. You will be interviewed by a multitude of R&D engineers - and they know very quickly who can and cannot code or does not know their CS theory (algorithms, data structures, etc). The logic questions are not as important - they simply show what your thought process is. If you don't know the answer to the logic questions - they prefer that you at least try and then admit defeat than to just admit defeat without trying.