The process was a bit of a time sink. There was an initial interview about 30 minutes long, followed by a take home assessment which takes a few hours if I remember correctly. After that was a 1.5 hour coding & technical interview. Finally, there is also a 1 hour architecture and design interview. To me, this seems a bit overkill for a job that will pay about 100k. The worst part, however, was during the coding interview. There was a SQL based question that was written in a very ambiguous way. When I asked multiple clarifying questions, it was revealed that both the interviewers had different interpretations of the question themselves. I'm already under enough stress during an interview with 2 people watching me code, and now I have to decipher how their poorly worded problem should be interpreted. This team (which is the old Rubikloud) should get in gear a little bit and if they make a new question, properly vet it. Moreover, train the interviewers so that they are at least on the same page when it comes to what a solution should look like. I remember leaving that interview thinking that team must have pretty significant communication problems.

The interview process was not explained clearly. For every round of interview I needed to reach out to the recruiter to ask what I should be expecting and I always got vague responses. The worst part was the last round of interview that I was told it is going to be technical questions but upon starting the interview I found out it is live coding challenge. Also the live coding platform was not working and I had to code without being able to run the code. Considering that the platform was not working and we spent some time to see if we can fix it I didn't have enough time to do the challenge completely. I think the platform bugs where considered as my lack of experience which is not fair at all. Other than that, I enjoyed talking to people.