There were several processes in the interview, as is typical for Software Engineer positions. One was a technical exercise, and the other involved discussing the technical exercise with a software engineer from the company.

The technical assignment was not particularly complex, but it required over 10 hours of work. Combined with the two-hour technical interview, it felt like a significant workload for a recruitment process. During the technical interview, specifically the system design part, several questions were asked in rapid succession, with very little time to think or structure responses. The questions were quite closed-ended and seemed focused on validating one specific solution, with limited context or opportunity to explore alternatives. My impression was that the process was more focused on finding someone who had already faced the team's exact challenges, rather than evaluating broader technical reasoning or analytical ability.