I applied through an employee referral and completed the phone screen and five onsite interviews. The interviewers were professional and respectful throughout — definitely a highlight of the process. The questions were more open-ended than expected, and it became clear that for this particular role, they were primarily targeting candidates with prior adtech experience. Unfortunately, the recruiting experience was disappointing. Despite giving two weeks' notice for my availability(around July 4th), I received no confirmation until I followed up 2 day before the proposed interview date. After receiving a rejection, I requested feedback as written as an option in the email and followed up again a week later — no response. My referral contact also confirmed that this recruiter had been unresponsive during their own process, requiring intervention from other recruiters.

Recruiter screen high level discussion. Tech phone screen live programming exercise. Virtual onsite, 3 tech rounds two culture/behavioral. For mine it was like an out-of-body experience, except when I turned to look it wasn't a body at all; it was a plane. Watched it take off, seemed like maybe the pilot hit the throttle a little hard trying to reach cruising altitude and then.. dunno, maybe he dropped his cigarette under the seat or there was a bee in the cockpit or something because next thing you know he's flailing around while I watch the plane tumbling, helplessly aghast as a wing shears off from the stresses he's inducing. No survivors. But seriously, good interview process. Very helpful recruiter team that will spend time detailing the process and expectations. Exercises are very realistic applied engineering stuff, not brain teasers or obscure algorithms or stuff you haven't done since college. Interview process may be different across the org so YMMV. I interviewed with the Content and Business Products side of the house (i.e., tools for studio, production, not streaming to end users) and the coding, sys design, and data modeling rounds all reflected that. My advice to you: study the OSS software they publish, know your stuff and *stay calm*.