Status: ~4 YOE
Position: SDE 2, Non-FAANG
Location: EU
Date: May 2022

Bolt, EU one not the US one.

Applied via Careers page. HR reached out, had a discussion regarding upcoming process.

Got a mail to schedule first live coding round.

Round 1 (Live Coding - 90 mins)
5 mins of intro.
20 mins discussion on general SWE concepts like best CI/CD practices, HTTP, DNS, observability of logs, metrics, etc.

1. https://leetcode.com/problems/check-if-all-characters-have-equal-number-of-occurrences/
2. Follow up on first one, if a string can be made like above one by at most one character removal.

Got a mail to schedule second live coding round.

Round 2 (Live Coding - 90 mins)
5 mins of intro.
30 mins of discussion on general SWE concepts like identifying a slow query in application, caching, DB indexes, etc.

1. https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-window-substring/

Got a mail to schedule last design round.

Round 3 (Design - 90 mins)
5 mins of intro.
30 mins of discussion on previous experience, projects, accomplishments, learnings, career aspirations etc.
Design a service to store orders data for retention and render search feature for building analytics engine.

Got a rejection mail, design skills weren't upto the mark.