Luciq Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

This interview checks your advanced knowledge in database systems and operating systems. It also looks at your strong backend development concepts, like how you design and build APIs, use industry best practices, make sure things scale and are maintainable, and put in security measures to keep applications and data safe.

It all started when an HR person hit me up on LinkedIn, asking for my resume and phone number. Then, another HR called me to chat about some stuff. After that, I got this technical test, which was a Ruby web app project with a ton of requirements (like needing a mysql database, a job queue, elastic search, and a golang client). I figured they wanted to test a lot of skills, so I dove in and spent my weekend working on it. I ended up emailing them the link to my code repo. About a week later, I got this weird email back with a broken template and just some generic comments that seemed like they just copied and pasted the reviewer's notes without really looking at my work, you know? No back-and-forth, no meeting to discuss it, not even a review on Github. I tried asking for a meeting to go over the feedback or at least get a proper code review, but radio silence.

we started with a phone call, then i had a task to complete within a week, followed by an HR interview, and finally a technical interview that mainly focused on the task plus one easy problem-solving question and a DB schema question.