I met with three people: one peer, one manager, and one senior leadership. Each interview was tough, but relevant. They all came across as a little cold, as though they didn't want to be there.

I interviewed with Lucid for an entry level position. I applied, went through the interview process, and heard back about their final decision exactly 1 month later. The first interview was a 30 minute phone screening. It was very casual (almost too casual — the recruiter was driving in her car as we spoke). After that, they pushed me through to meet with one person from the team over Zoom. It was your standard behavioral interview that lasted 30 minutes. After that, I was given a writing assignment to complete. It wasn’t too difficult and was only meant to take about 30 minutes. After that, I was pushed through to the final round. The final round was three 30 minute Zoom interviews back-to-back with different people from the team. In my opinion, this was very inefficient. They were all very kind and easy to talk to, but they all spoke to me about very similar things and so I asked each of them almost identical questions because of that. There’s not much more you can ask when you’re talking about the same thing for 90 minutes. I don’t understand why they couldn’t have all been in one interview together and had it last about an hour. Then there would have been no redundancy and I would have been able to ask all of my questions without repetition. Three 30 minute interviews back-to-back after already completing basically the same interview with a different team member for my second round was too much. Overall this interview process took over 8 hours of my personal time if you include the four 30 minute interviews, the writing assignment, and the detailed preparation I did to be ready to interview. That is too much personal time to ask of a candidate, especially for an entry-level position. And especially to not receive an offer. Also the rejection was a generic email from my first recruiter which appeared to be made for someone who was rejected right after the first phone screening — not for someone who made it to the last round, spent 8 hours of their personal time, and was turned down by the team and not the recruiter. It just felt like they didn’t value all the time I’d spent with them. Lucid needs to streamline its interview process — and maybe the process just varies by team. Especially the three 30 minute interviews back-to-back was inefficient and to me, ineffective. It’s alright — the role wasn’t really for me anyway. But I do wish I hadn’t invested so much of my personal time into this interview experience. I think Lucid is asking too much of its candidates, especially for entry-level, early career roles.