I was contacted over LinkedIn by a recruiter (Tiffany). I'm glad she did, as it turned out to be a great fit! It started with a simple recruiter phone screen. It was mostly behavioral questions, and she was easy to talk to. There was a say-the-key-word tech question or two. A week later, a phone screen with the hiring manager. I don't remember what happened here, but it wasn't an algorithms question... I think it was behavioral stuff based on my resume. Then a take-home challenge of finding flaws in a small, vulnerable web-app that used the same tech as the company. App was full of memes and jokes. Pretty easy, even though I wasn't familiar with the framework or even the language it was written in. Tiffany was great at answering my questions on how to format my findings for the interview (not a PR or git diff, but a free-form presentation) and whether not knowing the specific flaws in the language would be a problem (not necessarily). Onsite interview consisted of two panels and a 1 on 1. Panel 1: I talked about my findings on the take-home challenge with three engineers of the team. They were friendly. 1 on 1: an algorithms question with a staff engineer on the team. Judged me for my taste in shows, lol. I still passed, it seems. Panel 2: culture fit, plans for my job, and coding trivia from resume with hiring manager and VP of engineering The day after the onsite, they asked for references. Tiffany was getting married around the time and was taking time off for that, and she did a good job handing me off to Crystal for this part. I had to scramble to get a 3rd reference (early career, my go-to was off the grid), but Crystal was cool with the extra time it took for my new 3rd to respond. Somewhere in there was a final call with the hiring manager for some Q&A about the job, too. After my references cleared, Tiff was back and presented me with a pretty strong offer. I sat on it for a week, as I was still interviewing with other places. She was good at following up without pressuring me. I ended up accepting, and asked for and got two weeks to take it easy before I started. Didn't negotiate, so I don't know how that goes. The only bad thing that happened was I was not told when to show up on my first day. So when I showed up at 9 am, I was sitting on my hands for an hour before the rest of my team showed up. But that's partly my fault for not asking.