I was contacted by an HR employee from Here Technologies over LinkedIn. The company seemed interesting as well as the projects described in a message. I decided to give it a try. Whole process is very friendly and informal. First meeting is a general HR talk where you can find out more about the company and teams you will be recruited for. Next is the meeting with Engineering Manager who runs the target team. I was considered for two different locations (Cracow, PL or Chicago, US; job is 100% remote) so I attended two meetings with different managers. They were both very friendly and well informed as to what tech stack is used, aware of systems architecture, volumes of traffic being served and data being processed. Even down to versions of tools and languages used. I consider this a huge plus. Then there are 3 technical interviews (45 minutes each), in my case led by either Principal Software Engineers or Lead Software Engineers. I had these 3 interviews scheduled on 2 days. This is the part where you are asked technical questions focusing on design and problems related to distributed systems. Also, during 2 of these interviews, I was asked to share my screen and do some coding. The choice of tasks is rather well balanced considering constrained time and if you are familiar with LeetCode's medium-classified problems you should have no problem solving them. I didn't manage to solve entire problem in any of the interviews but it is not necessarily the goal of such tasks. I had the opportunity to show how I approach the problem, how I code the solution using TDD and discuss the process along the way. In my opinion such coding tasks during the recruitment process are a must and I consider these a plus. And that's it - whole process took less than two weeks and an offer was presented to me, which I accepted. If it wasn't for my limited availability during that time, it may have even been a bit shorter than said two weeks.