It started with the 3 hour take-home. This was actually pretty difficult and was a leetcode question in disguise as a json manipulation problem despite them saying they don't like leetcode problems. I'd say it was equivalent to a leetcode hard in terms of difficulty. I passed that and then had 2 onsites, the coding and system design. The coding went great, The interviewer was super friendly and I passed. With the system design, however, I agree with others in that it felt more like an interrogation. I answered with every deep dive from hellointerview since I know what the question was going to be beforehand, It felt as if the interviewer was trying to trip me up and didn't feel as if we were working together. He also kept interrupting me very frequently and refused to let me take the lead in building my solution. He got very hung up on whether the video metadata should be stored in sql vs no sql, which I don't think was particularly relevant to the problem but I believe that was the reason I ended up failing when I said I don't think it matters that much. It felt like the interview was being given in bad faith with no intention of passing me. In my meta interview a few weeks prior they kept emphasizing that sql vs nosql isn't really a relevant debate anymore so it made it very hard to navigate this interview when the interviewer had a specific solution in mind and was not open to hearing me out. Even if knowing someone missing one minor part of the system was failure I would not have taken this interview knowing they were that picky. Nobody is designing Netflix perfectly in 45 minutes and I feel like I got my time and effort wasted.

It was easy and the interviewers were very friendly. 1 Coding interview, 2 System Design interviews, 1 Behavioral interview. Most of them just required discussions and asking questions, not very complicated.