Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Lambda with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 36.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Lambda overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Lambda as a Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Lambda in Apr 2025
Interview
Direct and to the point, Lambda ask technical questions which will synthesize your understand of the domain which you're interviewing for. I interviewed for a backend SW position and was given a fair, but thorough test in Linux and object oriented programming. No Leetcode.
The interview process consisted of:
* Recruited screener
* Hiring Manager interview - resume review, and off hand technical jabs.
* Linux technical interview -- this one was weird. I SSH'd into an EC2 instance and just answered random questions that the interviewer thought of, thorough and difficult.
*Behavioral & OOP design interview
* solve an OOP problem using python or golang, make sure to display 100% competency in the interview, I was declined since I was nervous and mixed up python & go syntax. This is a relatively easy problem, so you need to do it right.
* Behavioral interview -- the recruiter gives you a number scenarios to consider before this interview, and then discuss this in the actual interview, things like "A time you had a technical failure.