Laserfiche Consultant Interview Questions
& Process

I applied online through my school, and about a month later, I got a call and we scheduled a phone interview pretty soon after. The phone interview was quite long, but we mostly just reviewed my resume and covered some basic behavioral questions. The interviewer was really nice. She then sent me a problem-solving exercise to work on over the weekend. About two weeks after that, I got a call to set up an on-site interview. The on-site took about three hours, and I was interviewed by two people. The first interviewer asked behavioral questions like 'tell me about a time you took initiative,' 'tell me about a decision where you weren't sure of the outcome,' and 'tell me about a complex problem and how you solved it.' The second interviewer asked some problem-solving questions: 'you have 7 red balls and 7 white balls and two jars, how do you arrange them to get someone to pick a red ball?', 'how many m&ms can fit in your car?', 'you have two lightbulbs and a 100-story building, find the floor it breaks on,' and 'you have 9 identical balls and two scales, one is heavier, how do you find it?'. They also had me do a 7-minute presentation on anything. I thought I did pretty well in the end, but then they emailed saying no.

First they looked at my resume and asked why I wanted this job. Then I had two questions. One was like the knapsack problem in programming. The other was open-ended: describe a situation in a factory where different managers have different views on a problem, and figure out what's really causing it. After that, I had the onsite interview. It started with behavioral questions like 'Tell me about a time you had to make a decision but weren't sure of its outcome?' and 'Tell me about your team experience in the past?' (They really wanted details on this one.) Then came technical questions. For programming, I had to write a function to print primes up to N. For logic, I had to figure out the minimum weighings on a balance scale to find a heavier ball among 9 balls.

So I first had a phone interview where they asked about my background, threw in some basic behavioral questions, and asked some super simple technical questions like the worst-case scenario for adding an item to the front of a linked list. I felt pretty good about that part. Then, I got an assignment – I had to code this pretty easy program to figure out the minimum number of coins for a given amount. On top of that, I had to write a report analyzing and solving a made-up manufacturing plant issue. I think I nailed both and did them totally by myself. I heard back super fast and got invited for an onsite interview. First, I met with HR who just gave me the company lowdown and asked a few questions to clarify things. Then I met my first interviewer, who asked about me and my background, and then went through this binder of standard behavioral questions, like asking for an example of taking initiative or handling a client disagreement. That part seemed to go well, but then came the part where I totally bombed. The next section was logical brain teaser questions on a whiteboard. It was my second-ever interview and my first time with brain teasers on a whiteboard, and I just blanked. One question was about arranging 7 red and 7 white balls in two buckets to maximize the chance of picking a red ball. They actually cut that part short, and I really don't think I'll get a callback because of it.