I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Liftoff in Mar 2025
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Application
I interviewed at Liftoff
Interview
Overall, the process was smoothly and professionally run. The recruiting team was very proactive in answering all my questions and making sure I had a seamless experience throughout. The technical interviews included algorithmic/leetcode style questions, system design, and a hands on coding challenge (coding up a small project)
Interview
The interview process was very smooth and everyone was very nice. My recruiter was especially helpful in answering my questions and streamlining the timeline. It started with a 30 min recruiter screen. He asked very basic questions about my past work experience and my technical experience. I then had a 45 min technical screen before reaching their version of a super day. During the super day there were three interviews. Two of them were 45min - 1hr technical screens, while the last interview was a 4hr coding challenge where I had the opportunity to build a project given some starter code. Within a few days, I received word that my super day went great and I had one final 45 minute conversation with the hiring manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a graph, how can I find the shortest path from point A to point B [paraphrased]?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Liftoff in Feb 2025
Interview
The interview consists of 4 steps,
1. The recruiter contacted me, and had a talk to me to make me familiar with liftoff, and in the meanwhile, to get more information from me.
2. The screening interview. The interviewer asked me some algorithm questions, I finished them.
3. There existed three round interviews in this step. The first two rounds were similar with the screening interview in the step 2, and in the third round, I was asked to finish a game, which was really fun.
4. I met the hiring manager in this step.
I think the whole interview process was very fluent, and the recruiter is very responsive and very helpful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All the questions in the first three steps are coding questions.