Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Lookout (Toronto, ON) nel mese di apr 2022
Colloquio
Recruiter reached out on phone, got interview scheduled with hiring manager, hiring manager spent 90% of the time explaining what they do and talking about the stack, asked a few open ended technical questions ( design patterns etc) that i was clearly not able to answer on the directions he wanted me to take, got the an email very quickly from the recruiter that they do not want to proceed.
Of all my experiences of interviews this one felt really poorly designed and they really need to fix the way hiring manager approach candidates ask good questions and provide proper feedback
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Have u used any design patterns in your experience (singleton or factory etc)
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 2 giorni. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Lookout (Toronto, ON)
Colloquio
Very unprofessional and badly organized interview. I was interviewed by 6 people for a span of 4 hours. The Toronto location is definitely a disgrace to lookout. The recruiter(Lookout) based in Boston does not even want to respond to emails after interviews, the fact that she reached out to me for an interview and I didn't even apply for the Job. Advice to SFO management, try hiring Managers with software development experience and not Project managers to overlook the Software team.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto un giorno. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Lookout (Boston, MA) nel mese di apr 2016
Colloquio
Overall an awful experience. The first few one on ones interviews were good. We talked about API design and security, testing and TDD. However the last interviewer was terrible.
The last interviewer (I believe a principal engineer / architect) was clearly not interested in talking to me. He spent more of his time checking his email than listening to my answers to his questions.
The questions he did ask were very vague, but he had very specific answers in mind. One such was "I have a slow query, how do I make it faster?" Apparently the answer was shard the database. After a minute of talking through things I would do he got frustrated and said "The answer I was looking for was sharding." and then moved on.
I was then asked to write some code on paper for finding repeated substrings which I did quickly in a few lines of code. I was then asked to do a code review on my few lines of code, which I did while he read his email and didn't seem to pay attention to a word I was saying.
He then went on about how Lookout is doing some groundbreaking work, and then said "you can't look up the problems we have here on stack overflow and paste the code in." In a way that very clearly implied that's how he thought I wrote code.
I was sent a rejection email within 5 minutes of walking out of the building with no feedback.
Avoid interviewing with this company at least in Boston, they're not worth your time.
