- 1 Phone Interview - Went over a coding question - 4 Onsite (Zoom) interviews - 3 coding and 1 Design + Coding All the coding rounds were good and some of the interviewers asked a second question as we wrapped up the first one sooner. And the interviewers who had to ask a second question didn't seem prepared for it. I have to say that I did not enjoy the design round with the Engineering Director for the following reasons: - The constraints imposed seemed unnecessary and artificial (atypical to how you would design such systems) especially considering the interview being remote and design conversations gets tricky. - Was expected to produce code. This is atypical considering the level I am being interviewed for and all the other 3 interviews were just focused on coding. - Almost no questions about my experience. - The conversation was just one way. I interview a lot of candidates myself, and I do expect the candidates to lead design conversations, however, I would interrupt the conversation if I felt that its going the wrong way or if the candidate wasn't covering the topics I would want or if I would want to get into the details of a topic. None of that happened here. And this should be the round I didn't do well. Considering the interviews being team specific, I would have declined the offer had I received one.

I never posted an interview experience before but as I continue to search for my next job I started to feel that I should also contribute because I have benefitted from Glassdoor reviews as well. So here it is, I just had my technical phone screen at DocuSign. It was not a good experience at all. The problem was related to string manipulation, not a typical leetcode problem but not hard as well. I asked clarifying question as what the parameters are. Before even starting the solution interviewer asked to think bigger where it can be used. Totally understandable, So i gave him examples maybe not the ones he was looking for. After that he started to talk in a degrading way, like you don't know this and you are applying for a lead role. Then he asked what the specs of the function will look like, again totally valid question. I told him the specs but he kept talking that I am not understanding and why have I applied for lead role. After sometime, he told the same specs as what I mentioned earlier. Maybe I was not able to communicate to him better but that still doesn't give him the right to bring down my confidence. Aren't interviewers suppose to work with you. I have been on the other side of the table as well multiple times, never in my mind I thought to show the interviewee that I am superior to them which I felt that the interviewer was trying to do in my case. Anyway, After that I politely told him that I don't think the interview is going in the direction either one of us wants it to and don't wanna waste his or my time and ended the interview early.