I attended the Career Fair and spoke with a recruiter at the AIS table. He was impressed and actually suggested I apply to the Software Engineer II position despite not having the required years of experience. He also told me to attempt the "CanYouHackIt" Challenges. I applied for the Engineer II position that weekend and got a score of around 800 on the challenges. Got an email from HR about a quick phone screen, which lasted about 10 min just to double check my information. Got another email about a phone interview, which was scheduled very quickly for the next week. Phone interview was fair, mostly checking my technical and conceptual knowledge. The two interviewers were on the team I'd be working with and were very nice and fun to talk to. I then got a phone call at the end of that week about setting up a video interview (in place of an "on site") with the team. I had the video interview that next week on Wednesday with 5 of the engineers, mostly covering my experiences and what I might be interesting in working on. They were all very nice and really just wanted to get to know me. The next day I got a phone call that they wanted to move forward and check my references. I got a call back very quickly that they couldn't get ahold of my reference so asking for another one. I then got the call Friday with the offer, and HR went over the benefits package with me. Great interviewing experience, shoutout to HR for being incredibly kind and helpful and on top of everything!
