Toptal Senior Software Engineer interview questions

An interview with a recruiter, that explains the steps A difficult coding challenge that only focus on algorithm and problem solving A live coding challenge with similar idea but less challenging A real world project that you have 1 week to deliver, estimated at 7-12 hours but in reality takes over 20h (if you want to deliver on all points) A call to defend and present the project

1. One to one interview (easy) 2. Online Algorithms (medium - not super difficult tasks, can be practiced online) 3. Live coding (medium/hard - depending on how nervous you are and the tasks you are given. Maybe a bit easier than the task to when it comes to tasks, but the time pressure makes it harder) 4. Small project (easy/medium)