I was contacted by a recruiter over call. From the very beginning the hiring team was not sure in which role they would consider me Manager/Principal engineer and kept on scheduling random interviews. The people who were taking interviews were unprofessional and had no idea what was last round of interview about. One interviewer asked me directly please tell me top 3 questions asked in last round so that I don't have to ask them. Every round they asked me are you applying for manager or architect. Is this real? They should focus on the objective of the round instead of asking me these stupid questions. An organization like this doesn't even know how to take interview. After 3 rounds of interview they asked me to come down to Bangalore from my hometown in 1 day notice for further rounds. It costed me 22K for this trip and they told they would reimburse this but they are not giving back the flight fare. At Bangalore office I was interviewed by a senior manager who was extremely rude and was making personal remarks in interview. Then it was followed by a director. From then the recruiter completely ghosted me and did not provide any update and not refunding my flight fare. I would advice not to travel to Bangalore for interview from hometown if you have other offer. They are very unprofessional and eventually would ghost you and you would loose your travel cost.

4 rounds- 3 technical and 1 managerial. Rounds were pretty comfortable. I was asked based on my experience and design choices. There was a system design question and a coding question as well. A little bit of low level design question were also involved.