They say to expect 9 hours of interviews, on top of all this homework. All-in, this looks like it would take at minimum one full day of work just writing on top of at least one extra-full day of interviewing and that's not including time to research, think, and copyedit the written homework or generate work samples if they don't already exist. Later on it insinuates the candidate would be expected to read internal issues and documentation requiring yet more of the candidates time - all for free without even the promise of an offer yet. This is essentially the same as Canonical's well-known and ridiculed process, except this is from a hot startup so it might get a pass.

I have nothing but the strongest distaste for LeetCode interviews but this is another flavor of absurd that still takes a huge time commitment from the interviewee which inherently discriminates against those already employed, those later in life, and those interviewing at more than one company.

More evidence for my big binder of evidence that interviewing culture in our industry is entirely some grotesque form of hazing ritual that builds upon itself, with each company and team deciding that the specific form of pain that they had to go through is the ideal form to subject candidates to in order to justify the pain inflicted on them.