Give a 30–60 min technical presentation
• Go deep into what you personally did
• Defend design choices, tradeoffs, and results
• Get interrupted with technical questions
They are testing:
• Technical depth
• Ownership (what you vs the team did)
• How you think under scrutiny
• Communication clarity
Few 1:1 panels (technical + personality)
Technical rounds:
• Deep-dive into your domain
• Whiteboard problem solving
• Debug scenarios
• System-level tradeoffs