Lodestone Interview Questions
& Process

It was a good, tough interview experience. It helps new hires prepare with strong knowledge and gain confidence for future interviews. It was a great experience overall with more than 4 rounds, and each round was unique, allowing for learning in every aspect.

The entire interview process felt really disorganized. I spent about 5 hours total in the interview, but only about 2 of those hours were actually talking to the hiring managers. After the interview, I tried to reach out to several contacts, but it took months to get any kind of response. Then, I had a second interview, and I also completed a personality test to figure out which team would be the best fit for me. After I sent in that test, I never heard back from anyone at Lodestone. The whole team seems unresponsive. Ultimately, I decided this company wasn't the right place for me, so I stopped following up. It wasn't a great interview experience overall.

So out of all interviews I have had, Lodestone was possibly the worst experience I have ever went through. Initially there is a jobinar to give details about the process. Next was a coding challenge that was fairly difficult for the time alotted. 3 coding problems 2 multiple choice. I still moved on despite only getting 1 coding problem fully passed. These steps felt fairly standard, but the rest I had a negative experience. The recruiter for one called several of my peers to check in and confirm interview times (before and after the interview) except for me, not even getting a reply to my email confirming the interview time. The behavioral interview was pretty unprofessional and rude. There were two people, one of which showed up on time that was shadowing for the most part as well as the main interviewer who decided to show up 20 minutes late. The shadower seemed awkward and did not know how to start the process without the main interviewer which I do not believe was his fault. The main interviewer came in uninterested and a negative tone in his voice. For simple questions, he simply did not like me providing background information on the scenario but rather wanted a short 2 sentence answer. In addition, they had the audacity to ask me about working with another interviewee on a project (a peer I had worked with before) during my interview instead of asking about how I worked in the group in general. This made me feel I was given this interview for partially two reasons. One, to get more information on another potential interviewee, and two, to get more experience in interviewing for the shadowers during the interview (the person who showed up on time did not even have a say as the main interviewer rejected me by the end of the interview with no consultation). Overall, Lodestone's interview process was extremely toxic and unprofessional. I personally believe interviewers and recruiters should show unfavored bias from the get go as well as act professional during the process. If there is another agenda, I would prefer to be rejected prior to setting a meeting than waste my time.

They started with a case study before any HR calls or hiring manager interviews, which made me think they really liked my resume. I skipped straight to this tough case study that took days. I then presented my findings and passed that part. After that, I met with the hiring manager, who then told me I lacked sufficient experience as a Technical Program Manager. It's frustrating that they didn't assess this earlier, wasting everyone's time. It feels like a backward process.