Applied on their website and got contacted by a recruiter not long after. A typical recruiter phone screen followed, and I was scheduled for a technical phone screen not long after. This technical phone screen was with the manager of the team in question, and I'm not always sure what to expect when it comes to a "technical" manager interview. Most of the time it is experience related questions, or questions relevant to the job. But this time it was neither, it was a coding question. I was asked to implement merge sort. Yes, plain merge sort. I don't think the manager quite grasped the ridiculousness of asking someone who is more than a decade removed from school to implement merge sort. Let's ask the question that is least related to any real-world experience I have? Anyhow, I wasn't able to finish, because as a real-world engineer, I don't re-invent the wheel on a daily basis. I didn't hear back after the interview and I'm not happy that I wasted my time on this.

It started with general initial phone screen, then got a take home exercise. After submission, there are 4 rounds of interviews through video calls. One includes code review of the take home project and the rest is mostly chatting with some basic engineering culture questions.