Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Lab49 with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 32% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 19 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Lab49 overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Lab49 as a Senior Software Engineer according to 19 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 41%
One on one interview: 22%
Skills test: 17%
Group panel interview: 7%
Background check: 4%
Presentation: 4%
Other: 2%
Personality test: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Lab49 (New York, NY) in Nov 2023
Interview
There were many interview rounds, but they were interesting. There was a recruiter round, a 15 minute multiple choice test, 45 minutes debugging and code improving, 1 hour coding session, a system design session, 2 discussions with department heads, and 2 more specific team fitness sessions. The entire process took about a month.
In my experience the technical rounds are standard for today's environment but I appreciated that they are practical and had use in the real-world compared to all the leetcode questions that have been thrown at me in the past. I enjoyed all the chats I had afterwards and in the final rounds. The interviewers were interesting and I got to learn about them a little more personally and their reasons for being a part of Lab49.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Quiz, code refactoring, coding question, system design, 2 department head chats, 2 team fit chats
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Lab49 (Budapest) in Nov 2025
Interview
First Round: regular HR round talking about the company, and relevant previous experiences
Second Round: 90 minutes live coding. Allowed to read docs or ask questions, but can't use AI or google the solution.
Difficulty is a bit hard to judge, because the problems were the type where knowledge of specific patterns is required, and that determines whether it's hard or trivial.
Style of coding and a compact and "elegant" solution were emphasized over relevant skills, or thought process.
There was no followup or any feedback after the second round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Make concurrent calls to a paginated API and concat the results in order. Display the results, then write various algorithms working with the above data.
I applied online. I interviewed at Lab49 (Budapest)
Interview
They said the interview process will take 4 rounds. Two technical coding interviews and two talking interviews. The first interview was about clean coding. The task was finding a bug in the code. Then refactor it how I want it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Fix the bug. Then refactor the code how you want it.
I had 2 HR screenings then a hackerrank technical interview in which after solving one exercise the interviewer wanted me to solve another one and even though the interview was supposed to last 90 minutes he cut it short at 60 and that was it. I was not able to finish the second exercise. So what do they want?