Interview at — Staff Engineer

Recruiter → 2 technical phone screens → 4-round virtual onsite (1 coding, 1 system design, 1 behavioural, 1 cross-functional). Loop is long but well-organised.

Rounds

1
Recruiter · 30m
2
Phone screen 1 · 60m
3
Phone screen 2 · 60m
4
Virtual onsite · 4 × 60m

Questions asked

Q1
“Design a payment processor that handles 10× the current load.”
Q2
“Tell me about a time you disagreed with a senior eng decision.”
Q3
“Implement a debounce that supports leading and trailing edges.”