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The process started very well. The HR side did an excellent job — it was structured, well-organized, and clearly process-driven. The role and project descriptions were attractive and genuinely sparked my interest. Throughout the process, I met constructive interviewers with solid experience, which I appreciated. I successfully passed the behavioral interview and the coding challenge stages but was rejected after the system design interview, although it seemed there could have been at least one more stage. After each round, feedback was requested from me, and brief feedback was provided in return. I was also told that I could receive more detailed feedback for the final stage, but unfortunately, I never received it. During the system design interview, I felt that there was some mutual confusion. The interviewers appeared to have limited experience conducting system design interviews, and the question itself felt relatively new or not fully standardized. Having experience with system design interviews from both the candidate and interviewer perspectives, I noticed gaps in how the session was structured. While I fully acknowledge that my performance may not have been ideal, there were also challenges during the requirements-gathering phase. Several functional and non-functional aspects remained unclear or unanswered, such as: Expected QPS (queries per second) Trade-offs between consistency and availability Environment isolation decisions (which were pushed to the candidate to define) The types of rules expected to be supported Overall, while the company and people left a positive impression, the tech design stage has to be reconsidered and improved.

I had four interviews and a design challenge during the process. The first two were with the Talent Acquisition Specialist, followed by one with the Product Design Director and a final one with him and two possible team members. The design team was very professional and pleasant to speak with, but the HR experience was less positive. The Talent Acquisition Specialist was late to both interviews, and there was confusion around the position’s budget, with approvals later retracted. After I declined the offer, the HR representative made some unprofessional comments questioning my decision, which left a negative impression overall.