Meta Software Developer interview questions

1 Behavior/Past experience 2 Ninja 3 Lunch (not rated) 4 Design 5 Ninja The behavior interview is about 1 hour, just talking about your past and current experience and projects you have done, plus a 15 mins coding test. first Ninja is an opening question, essentially creating your own question based on a scenario and do some coding. My experience was really good so you have the flexibility to design questions you are familiar with. Lunch was chat with a senior team lead, relax and get to know what you want to know. Design was easy for me, since I have done a similar system at my current job. the last ninja really sucked, the question is about a really unconventional event processing model using "pulling" instead of standard "push" model (like Storm), and the interviewer does not talk much and was not happy when I proposed the much simpler and intuitive push model. I failed on this one.

I was referred by a friend. Whole process took a week in a half - due to a pending deadline on my part. I had a phone interview and was then invited onsite at the end of the week. The onsite interview was composed of 3 interviews. They were typical questions of any other technical interview questions - although slightly more tree-heavy than other companies. On Monday I was contacted asking to provide references. I thought I had it in the bag because of this but Tuesday evening I was rejected. I know that they were strong and wouldn't cause my rejection. So I guess references are asked for before the onsite interviews are processed?