One Kings Lane Interview Questions
& Process

They first had me do a phone interview with a recruiter to check out my skills. The recruiter was nice and easy to talk to. After that, I was invited to their office for more interviews with people on the staff. I had two separate interviews with staff members in the same department, and they asked really similar questions. They used a lot of company jargon and seemed focused on sticking to the brand and what the customers like. They didn't seem to care about finding new clients or suggesting new items. They were looking for standard ideas about design inspiration, so it's good to have solid answers about who the customer is, what kind of design inspiration fits the brand, and how your style connects to it or which designers you look up to. But keep it simple and not too out there. One interviewer was great and made me feel relaxed, but the second one was really tense and aggressive, which was unpleasant and rude. I wouldn't have taken the job anyway because I wouldn't want to work with that aggressive person. She wasn't professional and seemed to have anger issues, making her seem like she'd be hard to deal with at work.

I started with some writing samples about hypothetical customer issues. Then had a phone interview, followed by a call simulation where the interviewer seemed impressed. After that, I had an in-person meeting with three potential co-workers, which went really well. They were nice, and we got along. The questions were pretty basic, like asking for a time I went above and beyond for a customer. Later, I interviewed with the head of the department, who asked straightforward questions. I felt confident after both interviews. I sent a follow-up email when I got home thanking everyone and expressing my excitement. About two hours later, I got an automated email saying they were moving on with other candidates. I asked for feedback but doubt I'll get any. Honestly, I'm not too disappointed about not getting the job if this is how they treat candidates.

I first connected with the recruiter on LinkedIn and then got the call for the interview. I went through 2 phone screens where I was asked basic questions like why I was interested in QA instead of Software Development, and how I would go about testing a website. After that, I had a 3-hour onsite interview that included 3 technical rounds, each lasting 45 minutes. I also had a brief chat with the team lead about the role's expectations and then a final interview with the hiring manager.

I talked to the recruiter first, and she was good at figuring out my background and what I was looking for. She set up a phone interview. In the phone interview, they asked about my past projects and experience, and some data structure questions. Then, they gave me a coding assignment to do. It was about dynamic programming, and I sent the code back in a few hours, though it took me a bit longer than I thought. They liked my solution, so they invited me for an onsite interview with the team. The reception was a bit slow; I had to wait about 20 minutes. After a quick tour of the cool office, I was taken to the interview room. I met with 3 people out of the 4 scheduled, as one couldn't make it. They asked me in-depth questions on various topics. I was asked to design a minesweeper game, discuss design patterns for a vehicle garage, scale a database counter for millions of hits, find the start index of an integer in a character array, design a file system, and find unique strings in a huge set.