LendingClub·Software Engineer

LendingClub Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Dec 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My phone screen was fairly typical in length, and it focused on core backend and algorithm fundamentals.

I talked through REST-style topics and things like hash maps and SQL queries, and the interviewer kept going deeper on each area until I reached my limits. After that, I had to code on a platform like CoderPad, including tasks like reversing a linked list, with the interviewer helping me find the solution.

The difficulty level felt manageable, but I still ran into fatigue when the onsite stretched out. One onsite had interviews with hypothetical-style questions, plus architecture discussions like microservices and AWS. The last interview ran longer than planned—over an hour—and by then I’d

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