Algolia Software Engineer interview experience

I went through an HR call, then a team manager call, then back-to-back coding interviews that ran about an hour each. After that I had several more rounds—culture-style conversations, a senior lead chat, and a system design interview.

During the process, I kept picking up signals that the team was under pressure and understaffed, including mentions of an OOO support rota and deadlines. Some interviewers also seemed less experienced than the level they were interviewing for, and I remember a moment where I was told I was the first to solve a particular coding problem like a medium BFS