I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Lyric (São Paulo, São Paulo) in Sept 2023
Interview
It was a very friendly proccess. You talk to their IT Director and them do a couple of technical challenges, one being the coding interview and the other a system's design screening. Their interviewing partner, Karat io, are great!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding challenge involving practical solution where you have to find if, given N words inside an array and a messy string input, there could be found letters in the string that would sum up to any of the words in the array
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Lyric in Apr 2026
Interview
I interviewed at Lyric in April and May of 2026. Initially a recruiter reached out to me regarding the role. During our initial conversation I sensed something was off - he seemed disengaged and seemed to be reading off of a script. After discussing my experience, he moved me to the next round, which was a online coding screening with a third party company called Karat. I never interviewed via a third party before, and it felt really strange. Because it wasn't someone with the company it felt very disengaged, and we just walked through some trivia and coding questions.
After that, I was told I passed and got moved to the next round. The recruiter reached out by phone (no warning, email, or message) telling me they wanted to move me to the hiring manager screen which I agreed. I provided some times, and then they proceeded to schedule me for 3 technical interviews instead of the hiring manager call with no explanation. I was like okay fine this works for me.
It was at this stage where this particular recruiters incompetence came into display - he was able to schedule the interviews, which another scheduler in the company was able to confirm. I took the first interview and it was fine (standard coding questions + follow ups). After the interview, I noticed that as the interview started the other two interviews got cancelled by the recruiter. I thought it was just some logistics error and that I was good. The other two interviews no one showed up due to the event being cancelled on the calendar. I reached out to the recruiter multiple times for an explanation for for clarity, but since then I've been completely ghosted.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Lyric in Feb 2026
Interview
5 rounds in total. First with recruiter, one with Karat, followed by three with Lyric staff. I will start by saying that everyone that I spoke to in Lyric were professional and I would describe as stand up people. About a week after the last interview I sent a light touch email to the recruiter. That was about a month ago. I have yet to hear anything at all.
5 rounds is a significant investment of time for a candidate. A simple one line response on outcome is the basic courtesy any applicant deserves.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were many questions, the design one was totally verbal and really just felt like a conversation.
Thank you for sharing this. This is not the experience we aim to provide. You should have received timely follow-up and a clear outcome after your interviews. We regret that this was not your experience. We appreciate the time you invested across multiple rounds. That level of commitment warrants direct communication and closure. I lead Talent Acquisition at Lyric and would value the opportunity to learn more. You can reach me at recruiting@lyric.ai.
