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Liftoff Software Engineer interview experience

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Beijing, BeijingPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My journey started with an interview setup that quickly moved into a heavy technical day.

I ended up with five interviews total. After an initial phone screen, I had three separate programming interviews, each about an hour. Those were the more standard coding-style sessions, and then I hit a much longer challenge that lasted four hours where the interviewer checked in periodically to see how things were going.

After that programming stretch, there was still one more interview with a hiring manager. What I remember most was how seriously the technical questions were taken—they felt like they were probing my real expertise rather than just testing whether I could get through a

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