I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Toptal (Mumbai) in Aug 2020
Interview
I got a in mail in Linkedin
1. One phone screening round: General quesitons
2. Video interview: in which I was asked to complete a coding challenge in 15 minutes with timer ticking besides the question screen. I couldn't do it in 15 minutes and was rejected.
Overall pathetic experience. Not a good judge for a developer interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array in with char precedence find word:
eg. (["P>E","E>R","R>U"]) = PERU
eg. (["I>N","A>I","P>A","S>P"]) = SPAIN
United States Coast Guard - Air Station Sacramento
No offer
Positive experience
Difficult interview
Application
I applied online. I interviewed at Toptal (United States Coast Guard - Air Station Sacramento) in May 2026
Interview
First you apply. you will get a link for a screening interview. (you can edit your interview if the time is not suitable for you.
One screen video call 15min. they arrange the technical interview (you have 48h deadline to start it)
One DSA assesment 1h (3 exercises)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
the easy was the count words in the biggest string
1 HR, 2 leet code, 1 project, 1 project defence
If you fail one of the leet codes you have a chance to re-apply again after a year. It wasn't bad, but its going downhill now. 2022 there weare about 300+ job offerings for my role, now less than 60
After two technical rounds that went over 1.5 hours, in which I was told I was going to move forward I got an email saying that they found someone else.
