Standard DS interview process with slight emphasis on product experience, which is much aligned with the role expectations.
Includes take home, tech interview, and onsite with a panel from various disciplines (engineering, product management, game design, machine learning, etc).
I applied online. I interviewed at Niantic in Nov 2020
Interview
First round is a Hackerrank/coding questions with 3 questions. Then, 1 initial technical interview with a software engineer. After that, the final interview consists of 2 interviews with both technical and behavioral type questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Class/inheritance, lists, data structures, medium-hard leetcode questions
We spent most of the time spent on the coding question; at the end the interviewer asked about my interests in Niantic and allowed me to ask some questions of my own.