It took me 2 months to get through 3 interview rounds (YES 2 months for 3 rounds), not counting the initial recruiter screening. Before that, I had to fill out a questionnaire with situational questions before anyone from recruiting reached out. Throughout the process, communication with the recruiters was pretty limited. It often felt like the recruiters and interviewers weren’t on the same page. I was told to prepare for certain topics, but the actual interview would go in a completely different direction. I didn’t mind that too much, but things got frustrating when I scheduled one of the interviews and the invite didn’t include the meeting link. I followed up multiple times, but no one responded. I ended up waiting until the scheduled time, and no one showed up and it was 1AM in my timezone while it was 8AM in interview's timzone. The first two rounds went really well. The first was with the hiring manager, and the second was a technical interview with a Lead Software Engineer. The final technical round was with a Staff Software Engineer. I struggled a bit with the collaborative coding part, but I did great on the theory questions and backed up my answers with real-world examples. I sent a follow-up after that, but no one replied until two weeks later when I got an automated email saying the position had been filled. For context, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t even the last round, I’d heard there might be a system design interview round and another one with a PM, but nothing was clearly communicated from the start. The recruiter had originally said there’d only be a few rounds, which turned out to be inaccurate. Scheduling each round also took days, sometimes weeks, just to coordinate.