I had a overall positive interview experience with Rockerbox. The team was professional and welcoming, and I especially enjoyed meeting hiring manager, whose experiences I found candid and closely relatable. Although I decided to pursue a local opportunity, I was genuinely excited about the prospect of working with the Rockerbox team.

Interview process was unnecessarily long. Too many live coding rounds. If you can't figure out the candidate's potential from one coding interview, then there is something wrong with the company. On paper there were 2 live coding interviews - one SQL and the other python. But they also had coding in the system design interview. The system design was scheduled for an hour and the design, 2 SQL coding questions and any questions you may have for the interviewer must be done within an hour which is laughable. Anyone who has system design interviews knows the whole thing can take 45 - 60 mins. I felt rushed and was barely started drawing the design when I was rushed into the SQL part. No algo or DS coding was required. But I got cringe behavioral questions like what was one thing lacking in your previous team and why didn't you fix it?