recruiter intro call schedule a tech screen. recruiter was tight lipped on what the interview would cover. tech screen: talk about a technical project, design a cupcake ordering app, find the intersection of two unsorted lists, then of two sorted lists.

An extremely daunting interview made better by an awesome recruiter. Lots of system design - this matters more for senior roles. I think I went through 5 total system design interviews. The last system design interview was so weird for me. I'd say my performance was definitely influenced negatively by one of the interviewers. He spoke extremely fast, slurring and blending his words into each other and had an accent. Not really his fault but wouldn't using another interviewer be better? I couldn't understand the problem he was explaining well and every time I asked him a clarifying question, I got more confused.