I envy professions whose interviews only involve verbal stuff. You know culture fit and what not.
Huku tech that is usually the last part and you’ll be lucky to get there.
Step 1: The perfect Resume. No not Curriculum Vitae. Recruiters have like only 10 seconds to get the impression so spare them how you were chairman of the drama club. Focus on showing your JabaScript prowess.
Step 2: Recruiter phone screen. Let’s see if you’ll still have interest after learning that 90% of their services are written in Python and they have mandatory quarterly retreats where you have to learn a skill.
Step 3. Probably a technical interview. If you’re lucky, you’ll get a takeaway one. Which you’ll do at your own time. The unlucky ones get to live code with a technical interviewer while answering live questions on the approaches they chose (this is better). The worst is DSA IMO don’t give me DSA unless the job is about building compilers. I’ll be writing. .Net and React FFS.
From step 4 onwards, it is hunger games.
Step 4. System design. This is fun in many cases but many companies can’t justify what they use Kubernetes but you gotta pretend to care about it knowing very well they serve a single region and all their stack could be in a VPS.
Step 5: Behavioural
“Tell me about one time you had a disagreement with your mother in law about tabs vs spaces. How did you ensure < 50ms latency?” This is a good place for Jaba nation. You can just say things while staying humble and showing the willingness to learn.
Step 6: Hiring manager/HR etc (Culture fit)
You’re probably getting ghosted here because you asked why they force everyone to work from the office while they can save time remotely. Imagine after all those rounds this is the tipping point. You are a great engineer, you turn heads in tech conferences, everyone wants you to sign their MacBooks and what not but that doesn’t matter. This is corporate and you gotta fall in line.
Tech is scary because even when interviewing, it means you could be in the process for months. For norms sometimes there is no interview. You just submit CVs and they look for the best qualified.