Grafana Labs Software Engineer interview experience

I started with recruiter screening and then spoke with the hiring manager, and from there the interviews were scheduled out across the next weeks. Each individual conversation felt fine, with normal expectations around fit and technical alignment, and I was left feeling cautiously optimistic.

But the timeline turned into a slow grind. In my case, I kept waiting as they set up interviews week by week with very little transparency about what the next step would be. After a month of interviewing, I was told there would be a couple more rounds, and then I went into radio silence for about a week