Liftoff·Software Engineer

Liftoff Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Aug 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process felt pretty clearly staged, but the goalposts didn’t come through cleanly to me.

I started with a one-hour technical screening using an online coding setup, then moved to a final round that included whiteboarding sessions and a separate four-hour coding challenge. Interviewers were knowledgeable and asked reasonable questions, and the recruiter team communicated in a cooperative way.

In the whiteboarding portion, I was asked to write code either in a local editor or on notepad while sharing my screen. I was confident in my solutions because I produced working code and it passed multiple test cases. Still, I ended up getting rejected based on those whiteboarding results,

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