Lloyds Banking Group Software Engineer interview experience

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HyderābādPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

This ended up being one of the most disappointing hiring processes I’d experienced.

The early stages felt impersonal and careless, and the company outsourced two out of three stages. The first was a Karat interview with several React-focused questions, followed by two more coding tasks built around HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. The second stage was a generic personality assessment where I had to choose statements that best described me.

From application to rejection, the whole thing dragged on for nearly two months, and it didn’t feel like there was meaningful feedback or engagement along the way. Even the way the stages were run felt arbitrary rather than

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