Lucid Software Software Engineer interview experience

It was a difficult problem, but they gave me 10 days to solve it, so it didn’t feel hopeless in terms of time. After I completed that, I moved to a telephonic interview that ran for an hour.

In that phone screen, the interviewer basically explained the programming task and then stepped back while I coded on my own. What stood out to me was that I didn’t get much evaluation of my thought process or approach—my priority seemed to be producing code that could run and return the correct solution. The structure was more output-focused than discussion-focused: they wanted working code rather than