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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

September 1, 2021
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Recruiter reached out via email. Very friendly people overall.

  1. Hiring manager call

Brief call to align on expectations for role and ask any questions about the company

  1. Take home exercise

Takes 5+ hours to complete

  1. Multiple interviews

5 calls in total

  • 1.5 hours to go over take home and built an additional feature
  • 45 minutes to go over a Coderpad problem
  • 30 minutes to go over culture and values
  • 45 minutes for project deep dive
  • 30 minutes for wrap up with hiring manager

Overall impressions are that they care a lot more about technical fit than any other aspect. If you don't think you did well on the two initial technical interviews, I wouldn't bother continuing.

The purpose of the culture interview seemed more to just sell on the positive aspects of the company than to actually evaluate my responses.

They do whiteboarding as part of the interview process, even though hiring-without-whiteboards says they don't which was a bit of a let-down.

Questions

Coderpad problem was about a DFS algo related to one of their flag features

Take home interview - imagine a small feature that could be added to the take home after you completed it, and then you have to code it out live

Project deep dive was walking through a project you've worked on and engineers asking you questions about it

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the LaunchDarkly Senior Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

17%
Pass Rate

LaunchDarkly's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive17%
Neutral33%
Negative50%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for LaunchDarkly's Senior Software Engineer interview process in United States.