During recruiter call and phone screening, a lot of promises were made. The first 5 minutes of in-person interview were then spent by hiring manager, backpedaling to lower job title. There was no 1-on-1 interview, only a 3-4 engineer panel white boarding session. Questions overall were average difficulty, with a strong technical focus and not much about experience/personality. The office has typical novice interviewers that were looking for an exact match with their expected algorithm and that did a poor job of describing the problems to solve. Also, there was very little feedback, so it was hard to tell whether that zoned out look means my solution was a) wrong, b) too hard for interviewer to understand, or c) interviewer was bored.

There were total 5 technical rounds. 1. Technical screening. 2. DSA & problem solving. 3. DSA & problem solving. 4. System design. 5. Leadership. Interview went very smooth. They rejected me because they couldn't digest my reason for leaving current company. This is my second time interviewing with them & both the times it is same reason. Maximum time it does not matter for what reason anybody is leaving their existing company. What matters is the value they bring.