First a phone interview with the manager to go through the company, the development team and my background. Making sure the role matches my experience. Two technical interviews, both started with talking about the company and my experience. One was more focused towards software architecture and the other one towards solving problems with algorithms.

First interview was an informal chat with the hiring manager. Second interview was a 1 hour discussion with the Director of Engineering or equivalent. Third interview was 4 hours long and split up into sections, coding assessment, design assessment, cross functional. They terminated my interview after the coding assessment citing that they need someone with more experience. I find that difficult to believe given that I solved both of their assessments and I shared my thinking and worked with them the whole way the process. There were a number of times that I was pulled back and pushed in the direction of how they wanted me to solve it even though I knew that there were other potential ways to solve it. They clearly had one way and no other way was good enough. There were 2 guys on the panel and one of them was very approachable and helpful but the other did not want to be there and it was very obvious. He was actually the one that came back to break the bad news to me. I personally think that coding assessments in general do not result in the best hires. It just yields good test takers. I am a talented and experienced engineer but these fill me with dread and anxiety. I don't very often do well at them because of this. This is not a reflection of how I work in the real world.