Etsy Software Engineer interview experience

It was a short 30-minute conversation, but it stretched into a longer timeline afterward—I eventually got an email thanking me and offering that I could apply to applicable roles with the coffee chat referral.

Months later, I went through the more traditional screening steps: a recruiter screen, then a coding challenge, and then a follow-up where the recruiter explained what would happen on the final onsite. The onsite itself lasted about four hours, with multiple interviews in one sitting. The topics felt like a mix of role-relevant evaluation plus deeper technical and problem-solving