• Employee Referral
• Recruiter Screen
• Engineering Manager Chat
• Coding Challenge (I spent about 10 hr but I was prob more nitpicky than I needed to be)
• Onsite (3.75 hr total, 4 interviews + 1 wrap-up)
• Offer

Placement into teams is pretty flexible and you can move around / try out teams after joining.

Honestly, I had a great experience with LD, and LD moves really fast! Apart from waiting for the initial recruiter screen which took maybe 2 weeks, everything else had a 1 business day turnaround.

They were willing to schedule the onsite the day after my coding challenge submission in order to meet an offer deadline I had for another company, which was super nice and flexible of them and their engineers!

I really liked the coding challenge, I thought it was reasonable to expect BE engineers to know how to build microservices with minimal guidance and I learned a good deal from it. I spent 10 hours because I picked a language and framework I didn't use for work (Python) so I probably could have spent less time if I used a framework I knew.

Onsite:

• 45 min review your microservice and extend it
• 30 min culture and values
• 45 min system design
• 45 min problem solving (algorithmic problem)
• 30 min manager wrap-up

LD is very profitable and has happy engineers and a great engineering culture (described in their values page) that I personally vibed with - I would have chosen them if not for a competing offer where I really liked the team match in the other company.

Coding challenge: build a REST microservice that consumes SSE using any language / framework. No need to use a DB framework (think they updated the spec so it could be completed faster).

Onsite:

• 45 min review your microservice and extend it
• 30 min culture and values
• 45 min system design
• 45 min problem solving (algorithmic problem)
• 30 min manager wrap-up