Applied online. Got an email from recruiter who asked me right away about my visa status. I will be on OPT soon which I told her. She later claimed that since I do not have an H1B, they cannot consider me as they need someone to start soon! Looks like their HR personnel do not know anything about visas, work authorization as well as illegal discrimination. After a week of exchanging emails, they agreed to a phone interview. I think I did pretty well in it but a couple of days later they sent me an email that they rejected me. I was expecting it given their initial reluctance to interview me based on my visa status.

Surprisingly easy compared to what I expected from a company like Pinterest. The technical interview consisted of two coding questions, one about reconstructing routes from unordered travel tickets and another on implementing a Sparse Matrix class. Honestly, I felt a bit underwhelmed. What helped me most in prep was studying the case studies on PracHub, which gave me good frameworks to think through problems. I did get an offer, but I ultimately declined because I was looking for a more challenging environment.