It started with a take home assessment which included building a pipeline. After a week, I was selected for a zoom interview. The interview was going well. Towards the end, I was not able to answer some of the technical questions. The position was data engineer and DevOps. This must be the reason for my rejection. The best thing is I got a feedback later suggesting improvements on my weak areas.

1. Was first given a take-home assessment that's about cleaning a given dataset and took me a day ish to finish 2. Zoom interview (90 minutes) about past experiences and then a SQL challenge 3. On-site interview (4 hours). Everyone seemed to be nice but you need to be careful about showing your thinking process of how to solve the problems as I sort of overlooking it when I started solving the coding problem. The interviewer consider me as memorizing the solution. I did have done the same question before but jumped into setting up the question for 2 minutes, then explained the solution I had in mind. I guessed it was these two minutes that made the interviewers think I had it memorized and lacked iterative thinking, which I did not expect them would think this way as I did walk them through my thinking process before I started coding the main logic. Overall the interview was not too hard, it's just that you did not know when you would accidentally give them a reason to red flag you.

I was reached out to by a recruiter on linkedin and applied on their website. I was immediately sent a "2-3 hour" assessment without anyone in the company having taken even 5 minutes to chat with me and see if expectations aligned. While I believe a technical interview is necessary for a technical role like this, asking me to spend hours up front without having spoken to me is disrespectful of my time.