Lark Interview Questions
& Process

The interview process was quick and to the point. The team was clear about the role and the skills they were looking for, which made the interviews relevant and engaging. It included five stages: an HR screening, a chat with the Hiring Manager, two technical interviews, and a final call with a leadership member. All the interviewers were friendly and enthusiastic, and I felt valued throughout the entire process.

Horrible interview process.. all individual no panel so you waste a lot of time with spaced out interviews. They provide you slides and ask you to memorize them in ten minutes and then ask pointed questions. Finally they throw in an astrophysicist to finish your interviews (not kidding) to give you random questions about data they made up. This person hated their job and did not want to be there. They also wanted to see if you could open excel and create a chart lol. It was very bizarre.

The initial chat with the recruiter was good, and the team seemed sharp, asking thoughtful questions and really paying attention to my responses. However, when it came time for the offer, they proposed a salary $10k below my stated minimum from our first discussion. Combined with the 7 or 8 rounds of interviews (some with the same people), and the last conversation revealing a need for flexibility to work West Coast hours from the East Coast, I decided to decline the offer.

This was probably the most disorganized interview process I've ever been through, and honestly, it started to feel like one of those fake interviews where they don't actually plan to hire anyone and just want to get info or check out the job market. I should have checked the reviews first. For starters, I never really knew who my main contact was, and I dealt with at least three different people who were just coordinating interviews, and nobody warned me it would be someone new. Every time I tried to get more details about the role, each person gave a slightly different, vague answer and told me to ask the next interviewer, which felt like a big red flag. Plus, most of the questions weren't really about my ability to do well in the job or anything important. Near the end, one person asked me to download the app before the next interview, I guess to get the basics down. But then the person who interviewed me didn't even mention the app, which made no sense. I also had to write an email to a prospect and never got any feedback on it, not even after the next interview. Throughout the whole thing, it seemed like the interviewers hadn't talked to each other because I was asked similar background questions repeatedly, and every interview felt like a first interview. Each one was weirder than the last. I only kept going out of curiosity to see what would happen, and in the end, my suspicions were really high. I'd tell anyone interviewing here to trust your gut; if something feels off, it probably is.