Applied through LinkedIn and received an online assessment. After completing it, a recruiter reached out to schedule two technical interviews. The first interview was engaging and involved a good technical discussion. The second was described as “System Fundamentals,” but focused more on problem-solving around parallelization and concurrency. It didn’t fully align with the system design or fundamentals expected for the role. Post interviews, there was no communication for about a week, after which I received an automated rejection email stating they were moving forward with another candidate.