I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Lytx (San Diego, CA) in Dec 2020
Interview
The entire process took a little bit over 2 weeks.
The recruiter contacted me through LinkedIn. After the initial chat with him, I had the first phone screen interview a week later. This interview focused on system design, microservices, and database design, such as CAP theory, and atomic transaction. The feedback came back positive, so they scheduled virtual onsite 1 week later.
The virtual onsite was challenging, since I had to talk to 7 people for 4 rounds. Some rounds are purely technical which focused on what I did in my previous jobs, and some more system design questions were asked. Some rounds are entirely behavior questions. The virtual onsite was on a Thursday, and the recruiter called me with an offer on the following Monday.
The entire interview process is very pleasant. The recruiter is very helpful and transparent. He gave me good feedback and also prepared me for the virtual onsite. Everybody I talked to during interviews are very friendly and knowledgeable. You can tell they do their jobs according to the company culture, which is: hungry, humble, and capable. Some of the behavior questions are definitely used to find out if the candidate has a good cultural fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did you load balance the number of API calls to the cloud service you worked on, in a data streaming and real time setting?
Tell me a time you have dealt with a difficult teammate?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Lytx in Apr 2024
Interview
HR contacted me over LinkedIn. The interview had three rounds 1. Managerial round; 2. Technical round. 3. Behavioural Round
The managerial round was quite easy, with reference to the experiences you mentioned on your resume, the majority of the questions were scenario-based. I was not impressed with the second round interviewer because he was not very technical. His knowledge of system design was limited to theory. It was difficult to talk to him because he was not ready to listen and was just interested in providing fixated answers. Lytx doesn't have a person to interview you for the technical skills listed on your resume, thus it's a waste of time and your technical talents are worthless.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about production scenario where you had bug
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Lytx in May 2019
Interview
One phone screen with the recruiter.
If you are a fit, there will be one technical phone interview.
If you pass that, you will be invited onsite for 4 rounds of interview ranging from your traditional leetcode algorithms to behavioral questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given two linked list, find out if there is an intersection and print out the intersecting node.
