Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Liftoff with 3 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 66.7% 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 Liftoff overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Liftoff as a Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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Overall, the process was smoothly and professionally run. The recruiting team was very proactive in answering all my questions and making sure I had a seamless experience throughout. The technical interviews included algorithmic/leetcode style questions, system design, and a hands on coding challenge (coding up a small project)
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Liftoff in Mar 2025
Interview
The interview process was very smooth and everyone was very nice. My recruiter was especially helpful in answering my questions and streamlining the timeline. It started with a 30 min recruiter screen. He asked very basic questions about my past work experience and my technical experience. I then had a 45 min technical screen before reaching their version of a super day. During the super day there were three interviews. Two of them were 45min - 1hr technical screens, while the last interview was a 4hr coding challenge where I had the opportunity to build a project given some starter code. Within a few days, I received word that my super day went great and I had one final 45 minute conversation with the hiring manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a graph, how can I find the shortest path from point A to point B [paraphrased]?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Liftoff in Feb 2025
Interview
The interview consists of 4 steps,
1. The recruiter contacted me, and had a talk to me to make me familiar with liftoff, and in the meanwhile, to get more information from me.
2. The screening interview. The interviewer asked me some algorithm questions, I finished them.
3. There existed three round interviews in this step. The first two rounds were similar with the screening interview in the step 2, and in the third round, I was asked to finish a game, which was really fun.
4. I met the hiring manager in this step.
I think the whole interview process was very fluent, and the recruiter is very responsive and very helpful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All the questions in the first three steps are coding questions.