Positions are "scaled". You apply / get recruited for "backend engineer" and based on your assessed technical level (by them), they'll scale it from SWE to Staff SWE. Recruiter and recruiting coordinators are personable and engaging. I had a nice technical phone interview. The problem was fun, but does require some exposure beforehand, so definitely not for language (Python) or web/API (JSON) newbies. Honestly, the engineer sold me on the company - something the recruiter could not. The onsite completely failed to impress me: * The platform team is relatively new and relatively wild west - no cohesive style or shared values. * Words like "empathy" get dropped without any real understanding of what that is. * 2/3 of the coding / white boarding exercises are completely divorced from what the position would actually work on - wasting time and doing a disservice to interviewees looking for a "day in the life" perspective. * Felt like someone in a "recruiting funnel" to hit metrics and not an actual person. Keeping working at it NW and good luck!

Had an initial phone screen with recruiter. This was followed by an online coding exercise with an engineer. Finally, I was brought in for an all day, on-site interview.