I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Toptal in Jan 2021
Interview
They dont want holistic and disciplined Engineeers. They want Race horses that breathe only one technology with speed thinking like supercomputers. I passed the coding challenge. In face-to-face techical interview they wanted me to do 1.5-2 hours worth of work in minutes. It is not practical at all. Interviewers were rude.
It was real life experience the problems was simulating what's happening in the real world and they let you use any extrenal libraries that support you with solving the challenges which made the experience very real life