Recruiter screen - Standard questions around past experiences, role, expectations and so on Staff Engineer round - In depth technical questions around your experience, I really enjoyed this as it wasn't bare minimum surface level checkboxes but they really challenged me on complex problems I solved Moved onto onsite Live coding round - A mix of leetcode style and practical stuff I enjoyed this round as it was a hybrid of both. As long as you have solid foundation of data structures and algorithms and also your everyday the way you code like concurrency, best practices, multithreading you should do just fine System design round - Probably one of the best design rounds of my career. Technically very in depth and challenging, it wasn't another SQL or NOSQL database choice they wanted me to go into low level details on various components so really understand the tradeoffs and discuss your design decisions. It's not about how much you got done but how well you know why you're making a choice and justify them. HM round - Behavioral questions on past experiences, very role specific and quite challenging Culture round - How you fit with the company culture, this was a lot more detailed than I thought so really know your stuff on resume and what you did and what impact it made.
