I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at mLab (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2018
Interview
Four interview rounds, everyone was cordial and asked good questions. The company is small and focused on delivering core product of SaaS mongo as a service. Lots of systems tuning, dev ops work, tooling around keeping the lights on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
(1) Represent a file in a filesystem
(2) Systems questions; diagnosing a machine no longer accepting new connections SSH / mongod, determine why and what's going on.
(3) Order a list of integers
(4) Data structures necessary to index documents with classifiers and reverse indexes pointing to documents (like in elasticsearch)