The hiring manager and director were both easy to chat with and kind. However, the technical portion took a sharp turn when I encountered the interviewer who exhibited all the personality of a stone wall. This position appears designed for disappointment, as crucial hard skills requirements remain mysteriously undisclosed even on the job application. Most concerning was their candid admission that the take-home assignment deliberately included an unsolvable problem, while providing minimal resources for candidates to work with.
I recommend revamping your technical interview process and reconsider who conducts it. I have no interest in collaborating with someone incapable of basic conversation or displaying a hint of humor. The position has remained vacant for months, suggesting they have an endless quest for the mythical "Perfect Candidate" 🙄
Fui entrevistado pela Lumos (New York, NY) em jan. de 2025
Entrevista
I only thus far got to the first technical round. At first a recruiter reaches out to you, it was a nice easy conversation about your background and the company. The second round technical is not a difficult question but can be easy to go down the wrong path if you're not careful. As others have stated they ask very practical toy problems that are related to their business. My advice is to make sure you design and describe a good solution for the methods they ask you to implement. It really focuses on the data structure and make sure you catch certain cases and bugs before implementing. Plan out your solution first and what that looks like. I don't think I got past this round as I didn't catch my own bugs and went down multiple wrong paths before course correcting. I think they expect you to be able to find this the problems with your data structure choice and implementation before coding as well as use the language features of your language choice. The only languages they offer are Python, Java, and Javascript I think. Otherwise you will have to translate the question to your preferred language.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Implement functions and design a data storage structure to update and filter items given a data structure and input they specify.
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Lumos (San Francisco, CA).
Entrevista
Fairly standard interview process. Nothing particularly out of left field except some variability in expectations between interviewers, role level seemed not well defined internally. Company seemed to be growing quickly and moving from founder led hiring to recruiters.