I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at the LEGO Group (London, England) in Nov 2020
Interview
I was SO excited to get the chance to interview with such well known company as Lego. In my mind I thought I was going to meet some diverse, intelligent and fun people but instead I got one of the dullest interviews I have ever experienced.
The whole process was made by men (first red flag for me) and when I finally got to see some faces in the video call, I was surprised to get people unable to even smile! More like robots.
The whole interview felt more like a school test rather than a conversation. The HR person was literally reading the questions from a paper and some of the questions were, to be totally honest, completely outdated. It felt like such waste of time.
Here's the whole process if someone's interested though:
I went through 4 steps:
- LinkedIn form submission with CV attached
- Automated response with link attached to a website where you will get recorded answering around 10 questions (some high level technical questions) with 2min to answer each
- Couple of calls with the Talent Manager
- Got sent a link with a technical test in Github
- Video Call with 3 managers and the talent manager to discuss the task and other more specific question (technical and behavioural)
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
What do you think are the benefits of using Hooks as supposed to using life cycles in React?
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at the LEGO Group (London, England) in Oct 2019
Interview
I applied online through a job posting website.
I got a reply from the HR recruiter, and after an introductory call (with some motivational questions) I've been contacted for a technical conversation with the Team Lead and another non-technical colleague.
It's worth saying that the role was heavily slanted towards technical challenges but also required a good dose of creativity and a constant connection with the design group.
The call was rather unusual since it was not the classical set of questions, but rather a conversation to understand how I could have been a good fit both in terms of approach/personality and technical preparation.
I was invited to the final on-site stage. I was asked to prepare a presentation (30 min) about a project, describing my idea of SW architecture.
Also, the on-site interview was not the classical the technical interview I've been used to attend in the past (be prepared to play with some physical bricks as part of the process!).
It has been divided in:
- Presentation and discussion
- Creativity interview with the design team
- Technical conversation with the engineering team
- Final wrap-up with HR and office visit
The idea I had is that there's a bunch of people genuinely trying to innovate and create something cool for the global market. It was a very interesting and peculiar experience.
I had the impression (confirmed in the end) that I could not be the perfect fit for the role very early in the process, but it was a good challenge for me to understand more about this world.
I hope to stay in touch with the team anyway, as they have very ambitious plans for the London group in the coming years.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing specific, but prepare some algorithms and have clear in your mind which is the process you'd like to apply to solve both engineering and creativity/play interaction problems.
I had two rounds of phone interview. The interviews started with simple math puzzles. Later, it most focussed on on data structures and algorithms. The question were average and from hacker rank.