Fanatics Software Engineer interview experience

I went through an initial screening, then a coding interview, and then behavioral interviews back-to-back. After that came an in-person system design interview. Before the on-site day, there was also a candidate mixer where we were treated with food and drinks and talked to as if things were already going well.

The in-person system design itself was on a whiteboard with a senior developer monitoring, and the conversation was very interactive—back-and-forth allowed as the problem unfolded. Everything up until that point felt smooth, but the logistics and signals around it were strange,