The recruiter reached out to me, followed by a call from the hiring manager. The HM referred me to another team. Another recruiter reached out to talk about the team. 1 hour technical interview was setup. The communication was fast and professional. The interview began with the problem description and went for more than 10-15 mins., to only come up with LC hard questions. Colossal waste of time from candidate's perspective. They could have as well asked to traverse tree and print the end nodes. The second part was to build the in-degrees and out-degrees of tree. But it took me 10-15 mins to understand the problem description. I had run out of patience to understand those diagrams and long description. It was an out and out topological sort. By then, I had run out of time. To all the interviewers -> Please state the problem in simple words. Candidates have mere 45 mins to code, execute and debug test cases.

I was a referral candidate. The whole process was quick. From initial conversation to getting an offer took less than a month. I took a few weeks to compare other offers and was never rushed into making a decision. I enjoyed the interviews at Airtable more than I enjoyed mine at several other places (including FAANG & other companies of similar size). Interviewers were polite and wanted to have a conversation. It felt more like exchanging ideas as opposed to being interrogated on a strict rubric. Per company policy they don't negotiate on compensation (like really). It wasn't an issue for me because they made a very competitive offer. It was a much better experience than getting low-balled and having to negotiate with competing offers. I didn't find the interview questions too hard. However, they were high signal because they focused on real and relevant problems.