Lexmark International Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

The interview process started with an HR interview. Following that, I was scheduled for a panel interview which lasted about an hour. During the panel interview, 3-4 interviewers asked me technical questions. I didn't receive any updates for weeks after the panel interview, and I'm unsure of my status. It seemed like the HR department forgot about my application, which I found unprofessional for a large corporation and a red flag based on other similar experiences I've read.

I am writing the review of the technical test at Lexmark International. They gave me three programs to write in either C#, C++, or JAVA. The first program was to write a class named Document to represent a document node in a print queue. It should contain a method name that returns the subject of the document and an abstract method called type that returns the document type. From the Document class, derive two concrete classes named Word Document and PDF Document. The second program was to write another class named Print Queue, implemented as a linked list of Document objects. Print Queue should have a method named Push for adding a document to the end of the list, a method named pop for removing the first document from the list, and a method named DisplayContents for listing all of the documents in the Print Queue, reporting both the Name and Type of each element. Print Queue should not use any standard library classes; it should be its own implementation of a linked list.

I applied online and after that, my hiring manager confirmed that I would have two interviews in Lexington, KY. I was flown out and had two 45 minute interviews with two people each. They were very kind and friendly engineers. I enjoyed asking them questions as well as answering their interview questions. I spent quite some time on a whiteboard describing Model-View-Controller logic in PHP as it was related to a framework I program with. Both interviews were technical in terms of "Give us examples of x or y" in terms of definitions of basic concepts, and then it seemed as if every other question was a personality/behavioral question, such as "Give us a time when a group project did not go over so well. What did you do?" So it was not terribly technical and it was not terribly behavioral, but a mix of the two.