I recently interviewed for an SDE3 position at Postman in Bangalore. I have 5 years of experience and am currently working as a Senior SDE. The interview process spanned three rounds, after which I was unfortunately ghosted by the HR.

My first round was a 1-hour Low-Level System Design Round. The interviewer challenged me to design and code a Facebook comments and reply system. We focused on using a Node.js Express server and MongoDB, with the constraint that replies would only be at level 1 of nesting, though multiple levels would earn brownie points. I believe I performed well and advanced to the next stage.

The second round was a 1-hour Discussion round with one of the Co-founder. This round primarily involved discussing my current work and answering a few technical questions. I successfully cleared this round as well.

The third round was another 1-hour session, this time focusing on High-Level System Design Round. I was tasked with designing a task scheduler service. I managed to work out a satisfactory design and passed this round.

Following these three successful rounds, only the hiring manager round remained. The recruiter initially informed me that this round would be scheduled soon, but then completely ghosted me. Despite my attempts to contact them via calls and texts, I received no response. I've lost all hope of hearing back, and I find it disappointing when candidates are left hanging without any status updates. I wish companies would maintain basic human decency and communicate outcomes.