SoundHound Software Engineer interview questions

I applied online and a recruiter reached out to me to work on an online challenge. After that, I went through a quick phone call with the recruiter followed by a technical phone interview with an engineer. Finally, I went onsite to SoundHound HQ in Santa Clara, CA for my final rounds of interviews with the CTO, the manager of the team that I applied to, a software architect, and a software engineer. The whole day in the office was very well organized and everyone I met was super friendly and incredible. The whole process ran extremely smoothly, and communications with my recruiter were very efficient.

There was a somewhat lengthy online screening, and about a couple weeks after taking that online test, I had a couple of hour-long phone interviews. I heard back about the results of each phone interview within a few days. Upon completion of the second phone interview, the on-site interviews were scheduled within a week. I had five interviews on-site, with four of them being technical programming interviews and the other one being a foreign language evaluation interview. In total, the interviews took about seven hours, including time spent at lunch and other breaks. The schedule of the day was made very clear to me and I never wondered where I should be going next or felt like I was left out of the loop. The only negative throughout the whole process was that, while my hotel and flight were payed for, I was never reimbursed for other costs incurred during my stay, such as paying for food and Uber. This wasn't a big deal in the long run, but it was confusing as it was made clear to me beforehand that I would be reimbursed.