The interview process felt more conversational (as opposed to the typical "solve these Leetcode puzzles" approach). There was a take-home project followed by a follow-up conversation with one of the Engineers. Thankfully, I felt the take-home project was of acceptable time expenditure (about 2–3 hours). I appreciated that the interview focused more on assessing "can this person do the job?" and "will this person fit in?" For all the interview rounds (system design, live coding, hiring manager), I felt the questions were all quite reasonable: plausible scenarios and problem scope for smart home company. I also had ample time to learn more about the company. Overall, the experience was quite pleasant - really nice people whom I’d have loved to work with (they definitely passed the vibe check)!

Basic HR interview, few simple questions Had a hiring manager interview, very nice person asking my previous experiences. Made 1 live code interview. The interviewer was looking to another screen during the interview, I felt like I was talking to a wall. Questions - Given a list of files in a file system, print them with identation, for each directory - First non-repeated char in a word Simple take home assessment.