I initially met with HR and went over the usual questions and cleared that. I was then invited for a technical interview with manager Keith and 2 other senior engineers (the X-Men: Charles and Xavier) and had a very very positive experience. I really enjoyed this interview, Keith made me feel very comfortable and actually made me feel smarter rather than dumb which is not common because most of my experience has been the opposite. The other two engineers, the X-Men were very respectful and never made me feel less when I didn't answer correctly. A lot of the questions were verbal, a lot of troubleshooting, design, K8S parts and the only hands-on was to create a function to parse results from a URL. The best part about this task is they actually give you the tools you need to get it done. Keith said, "feel free to use any tools necessary to get it done" and that alone made this interview possibly the best experience I ever had. Unlike other companies who expect you to know this without reading a single website, Lightspeed understood that reality is you are likely to use internet to get things done. I probably didn't get the job but it was refreshing and I hope all companies take the note and adapt the same approach. I don't even care that I didn't get the job, the experience was enough to feel good about where I am today.

Interview process took more then 6 weeks. Which too long. Team doesn't reply to follow up questions of feedback of interview stages but they invite me to next stages. First stage is HR interview then 1 hour technical interview then 1.5 hour architect interview The guys were nice and friendly but seems the company is not organised at all. After make the role remote on the UK they suddenly decide to make it on-site interview Belfast and this is the reason of not moving forward with me. Big mess to be honest. I expect big company like lightspeed should have enough people to organise the interview and response to candidates