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Long and confusing onsite interview process! 1. I was phone screened first by a recruiter from San Fran. He was on the ball, and setup interviews on tight timeline as I was leaving for holidays. 2. It was followed by a coding challenge, the deadline was roughly a week. I managed to do it in 4 days. 3. It was followed by a phone screening by a technical hiring manager. 4. I was invited for an onsite interview at the Melbourne office (on the day I was flying out for holidays.) In hindsight, I should have chosen a day after my holidays. It was all smooth until the onsite interview. The process at the Melbourne office was laborious., panel after panel! I was a little disappointed in that none of the panel members had seen my code submission even though I was told that I would be quizzed based on my submission and a few technical ones. The "technical" questions were trivial and sounded like a junior level sysadmin interview. As I walked out the door, I was sure enough I had the job but it was followed by the usual rejection email. "...thank you meeting us, we enjoyed speaking to you... " I would have expected them to feedback me on my performance especially when one has The engineering manager though at the end mentioned that he was impressed with my submission, although I only had about 5 minutes of meeting with him.

Quick phone call with recruiter, followed by a 2-part take home project (Ops-related and intentionally open-ended) sent by the hiring manager. Afterwards, a video interview with the hiring manager, followed by an onsite interview that consisted of 5 in-person (non-whiteboarding) interviews.