Lookout Interview Questions
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AI Automation Engineer
Mid Average Neutral experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Presentation
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
It was a 3 or 4 interview process. First was a general interview to check fit and go over company and position details. Second was with the VP of IT and third and fourth would have been with some other executives I believe. I only did the first two. Process was pretty standard.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Describe how you'd manage specific scenarios and what technical approaches you'd apply.
- What technical solutions would you propose for certain situations?
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Software Engineer
Mid Average Positive experience Accept offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding System Design
The interview process included 4 rounds, all focused on coding. There were also some architecture and design questions. Fastpath was a key area, so knowing C/C++ would be a definite plus. The interviews touched on debugging and developing AI generated code. The overall feedback was prompt. They were also good at asking for feedback. The code challenges themselves weren't too difficult. The main context was switching and fastpath.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Were you asked about Cloud Computing from a usage perspective?
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Senior Staff Software Engineer
Staff Easy Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical
The interview process at lookout was pretty disappointing. A recruiter reached out and said they'd pass my resume to the hiring manager. The hiring manager then scheduled an interview quite a while later. There was a coding test and some technical questions, which I thought I did really well on. But, even with a perfect output on the coding test and doing well in the technical interview, I wasn't selected. It felt like the interview was just for show, maybe they already had someone else in mind. It was pretty discouraging to do well and then not move forward.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you find the peak element in an array?
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Designer
Entry Average Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
After we talked via email, we scheduled a phone interview with the hiring manager. We talked about my application and interview results. There was supposed to be another interview with 3 people from the department, and then another with the director, but we never got that far. The hiring manager was either unprofessional or disorganized, and it was clear she wasn't paying attention to anything I said. She claimed she had my resume and portfolio open; my portfolio is mostly print design, but she opened one project that was more UX. It seemed like she didn't look at anything else after that because, even though my resume objective says I do print and I mentioned it when answering 'tell me about yourself,' and it's obvious from my portfolio (60-70% print design), she asked, 'It looks like your portfolio is more technical UI/UX. We're looking for someone who can do print design. Do you have any experience in that?' This totally confused me and left me speechless.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Tell me about yourself.
- It looks like your portfolio is more technical UI/UX. We're looking for someone who can do print design. Do you have any experience in that?
Lookout Interview Questions
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“What is an anagram, and assuming unique characters, lowercase letters, and same length, write a method to find all anagrams of a given word from a dictionary file.”
Read reports →“How would you determine the nth fibonacci number using recursion?”
Read reports →“How would you add two numbers represented as linked lists?”
Read reports →“Can you find the peak element in an array?”
Read reports →“Can you explain the logic for finding the top N most watched movies given a HashMap with movie names as keys and watched counts as values?”
Read report →“Describe how unordered linked lists work and what their advantages and disadvantages are.”
Read report →“Explain the functionality, pros, and cons of hash tables.”
Read report →“Can you solve the Valid Parentheses problem using a stack?”
Read report →“Can you explain how to sort an array of integers and estimate its complexity?”
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