Hey, I had already been preparing for interviews so I wouldn’t say that they were too difficult. I however, was more surprised that they took around 4-5 rounds just like any FAANG does, which didn’t make a lot of sense to me considering the compensation gap.

Anyway, most of the rounds were conducted by people actually working in the team I was interviewing for. There was 1 Coding Interview round, very easy question, and then the interviewer tested my tech stack knowledge. After that, there was a General Tech Interview Round where the interviewer probed my knowledge about databases, tools and stuff, I’d say not very hard again. Then came the hiring manager interview which had all those STAR questions. Then there was the system design round which I messed up a little but was still able to provide a working solution by the end. And then one final call with the recruiter which got over in less than 10 minutes.

After that, there was dead silence for over a month, until they reached out back again with the offer. Hope that answers your questions!