I had Seven interviews with 7 different people/groups. 1- external coding with Karat, 2 - Engineering Mgr, 3- Internal Coding, 4-Internal Coding, 5- System Design Interview, 6- Cross Team Mgr, 7 - Director. And the the original HR interview. The process took almost 2 months, with the last 5 interviews on 2 consecutive days. At the end they rejected saying interviews 1,3,4 were not up to the mark. Honestly no one should reach interview 7, if 1, 3, 4 are not satisfactory. It was stressful, time-consuming and disappointing to go through that entire process, when half of it could have been avoided if the rejection was based on early performance. BTW, I did solve the coding ones, altho not optimally. I must add that all the people I met were very friendly, engaging and a nice , especially the recruiter Tre.

I had one of my best job interview experiences with CZI through which I landed my dream technical job after working in multiple large and small companies! The interview process was by far the best interview experience in my 20 years of career so far! First, the recruiter, Roopali, closely kept me informed every step of the way and also provided great hints helping me throughout. The interviewers were all very much friendly and extremely engaged, the style that I like and appreciate a lot. This is much different from many other places in which you feel the interview is either unmotivated to engage or looking for excuse to fail you! Given this friendly and engaged setup, while the interview questions were mostly not easy or average in general, I managed to work my way through the problem without feeling pressured or unheard at all. In opposite, I felt very engaged and glad in every step. It was as if I am working on a problem with a friend or a colleague.