"A recruiter reached out to me cold by email, and the process itself matched what they told me almost exactly. I had a quick recruiter screen, then a long phone screen that was really two interviews back to back: a Playground design prompt and a coding problem around credits. After that I did a virtual onsite that was only three rounds, about four hours total, with a refactoring exercise, a past-project presentation with slides, and a leadership conversation. I ended up getting rejected, and the clearest signal I got afterward was that scale mattered a lot, especially in the project presentation round. One weird process detail is that a different recruiter reached back out to me again a few months later, so my impression was their internal tracking and cooldown handling were not especially tight at that point."
Software Engineer · Senior / L5
