Started with a call with the recruiter followed by a panel video conference within a week. There was a glitch with the video but nothing out of the ordinary. Questions were standard. Nothing out of the ordinary, unusual, or unfair. Folks were professional and courteous. I thought I did really well but got a rejection in a few days (which I appreciate it more than the common ghosting). Wish them all the best.

Initial phone call with the hiring manager. Followed by an assignment with three parts. Followed by full day of onsite (4-5 rounds) + lunch + dinner. Everyone in the team was friendly. They conduct two structured interviews, which gets monotonous after a few questions. Essentially, they're trying to follow Amazon style behavioral interviews. However, having gone through Amazon interview process. They generally ask you two at max three behavioral question whereas each of their structured interviews had about five or six! Not necessary imo. Though I must say they did a good job in setting the expectation and I was anticipating that. Overall, it was a decent experience. I had other parallel interviews with other firms and I was upfront about that. I thought I did fairly well in the interviews, but got a rejection after few days. When I asked for feedback, guess what? No reply! (Guess what? Can’t rate a positive experience!) Two words of caution: 1. There payscale is not upto the Bay Area benchmark (Half the team is offsite for that reason). Conversation with hiring manager was like “we don’t pay to the level of Google/Facebook, but it’s livable”. Classic sign of looking for cheap labor with high potential. That said, no harm in that most early stage companies go with that stage, but make sure to set the expectation right, so none of us waste time. 2. Bay Area is a small community, few lines of feedback to candidates who invested time in assignments and flew in for whole day of interview will a long way!