There were 4 rounds of someone asking 1-3 experience question, one design, and one coding question. There was one technical conversation interview, which was more of a solution architect style interview. The interviews were pretty easy - they try to cram in a mini behavioral/system design/coding/ into each interview which is weird but ok.
I was disappointed in the quality of one of the interviewers. He was a very inexperienced interviewer for someone at his career level. He arrived about 10 minutes and then blurted out instructions in a hurried tone (how else can he can make up for his tardiness, duh).
So, typically at even a tier 2 company (which this place is not, apparently), if the interviewer is 10 minutes late (!!) they will bite the bullet and offer to reschedule, etc. out of professionalism. This guy actually said "Ok tell me your intro, and then immediately go into the first question which is to say something you did recently. No wait - just tell me something you did in the last two years. But something you did cool". And thats how he talked the entire interview. He would contradict his own instructions before he was even done talking lol.
For the "system design" he asked a typical question about changing a batch system into a streaming system. But also for the "system design" he apparently hadn't thought through which system design tool to use. So he instead of being prepared, he insisted that I use the Zoom tool, to save time? Makes sense, because letting the candidate use a tool they are comfortable with would be silly, after all. The funny part is that some part of his brain actually thought he was making up for time (again, for him being late) by having these non-linear conversations with himself. "Pick a tool you like - NO WAIT just use this Zoom whiteboard. Yes use the Zoom whiteboard… just use the zoom whiteboard".
