The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Lookout (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2011
Interview
The person in charge of recruiting was very polite and easy to communicate with. I had a phone interview first in which the employee asked about my background with Android. My second interview was talking in general about my current job and the projects I've worked on. The next interview was in person. I was given a math based question that was fairly difficult but definitely solvable. I stumbled on the problem quite a bit. Seems like they like to interview 2 on 1. I have a 2 on 1 phone interview and then a 2 on 1 in-person interview. No further interviews. No offer.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Lookout in Nov 2024
Interview
4 rounds. All coding related. Few architecture and design questions. Fastpath was an important area. So C/C++ is a definite plus. Debugging and AI generated code development. Prompt in providing the overall feedback. Also good on soliciting feedback. Code was not hard to crack. The context was primarily switching and fastpatj.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Cloud Computing was important from usage perspective
I applied online. I interviewed at Lookout in Jun 2022
Interview
Worst interview experience ever. I applied through their website. Within a week, a hr emailed me to schedule a phone screen. Then she ghosted me twice, she never showed up at the scheduled time. I had to email her and ask if she wants to reschedule it twice.
Then I got to a technical interview, the recruiter says it is just a coding interview. But ended up asked to go through my resume and explain past projects with the interviewer. The interviewer laughs and tells me this is not what they are look for after my every answer, sometime not even waiting for me to finish my sentence.
I ended up telling the interviewer that being respectful to other people is very important for me and I decided not to continue the interview process with Lookout.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Lookout in Jun 2022
Interview
First recruiter call was very underwhelming and made absolutely no effort in introducing the company. The process consisted of multiple interviews (5 or more) with very senior level engineers. After the second interview I received an automated rejection letter and so the next interviews were cancelled subsequently. Overall a poor experience especially from the recruiting department.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System design question about hashing into buckets, add two numbers as linked lists.