Toptal Software Engineer interview questions

I applied through their website. In the first stage I had to complete some basic information on their platform about myself and attach my updated CV. I then went to the next stage and had a short call (under 10 minutes) online in order to assess my English and communication skills. We discussed about previous projects, my skills and some random subjects. After this I had to complete a codility test. There were 3 problems and 90 minutes to complete them. Algorithms. Some string, arrays and data processing, not to complex, but not super-straight either. I've finished them with 15 minutes left or something similar, the first two were 100% and the last one had some cases that failed. Tho, we moved to the next stage. Here comes the live coding/pair programming session. Live, with share screen, in my own IDE I had to solve two algorithmic problems and I had 15 minutes for each. After that I received the specifications for a home project. I had to develop an application and expose some REST endpoints for it. The requirements were quite complex and it took me some time to complete it. I had 7 days to complete it. After this I had a session where I shared my screen and went through my app - I've presented the REST endpoints, demo-ed them through Postman and in the end he asked me to add some validation live. This took about half an hour