I was contacted after my university's career fair. Initial phone screen with recruiter, then two technical phone interviews with a third party company. These were pretty standard questions: OOD, inheritance & polymorphism, factory & singleton patterns, binary search, hash table basics. Subsequent on-site interviews lasted one full day: Introduction to the product and architecture, 3 technical 1-on-1 interviews and 1 non-technical 1-on-1 interview. My experience with all of the recruiters, interviewers and the entire team was very pleasant. Technical interview questions included: Design a bounded queue, sort an array in place, and a lot of architectural/design questions tied to prior projects, along with a discussion of performance and process tradeoffs among design choices. After the interviews, there was a 2 hour coding project: write a program that reads a configuration of chainable filters from a spec file and applies it to a large amount of text. Interview questions and even the coding project were language-agnostic, which is nice and shows that this company is asking the right type of questions (ie, cultural+conceptual rather than encyclopedia questions about language-specific feature xyz). In the end of the day, we got to sit down with and talk to Jeff, Kontagent's CEO and founder, which was great.

Looong interview process, it seemed. First was a phone call from recruiter. She was super nice and was great at explaining the interview process, the role, answering my questions, etc. This first part was more informational than actually asking me questions. Next was an at-home assignment. Was told it would only take two hours, but it took me a few days to figure it out (they gave me an extension, which was super nice of them). Next was a technical phone call with shared notepad. Next was an on-site interview in Toronto. Again, everyone was super nice, which is great because it was a looong day, 9-5 with a 1h lunch break in the middle. The day composed of an IQ test and face-to-face and video chats with various employees at the Toronto and San Francisco locations. The questions were combination personality/behavioural and technical (on the white board). The last part of the day was to take my existing code and make changes to it based on new requirements they give. The recruiter was awesome about keeping me in the loop and answering my questions throughout the process, and the office admin in Toronto was available whenever I needed her between interviews.