Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at LaunchDarkly with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 38% positive. To compare, the company-average is 37.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at LaunchDarkly overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at LaunchDarkly as a Software Engineer according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Presentation: 22%
Group panel interview: 11%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LaunchDarkly (Oakland, CA) in Jan 2022
Interview
- 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.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
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
Started with a recruiter call, then a hiring manager interview, and then a frontend coding interview and a backend coding interview. Process moves rather quickly which is better than normal.
Recruiter screen, HM screen, round of two coding interviews, round of two systems design interviews, HM wrap-up. Whole process took 2-3 weeks to offer. Tight scheduling and good recruiting process overall.
The job post says it's remote, but the position is actually hybrid. The salary range listed on the job post is also a bit more broad than I would've liked.