Lowe's Interview Experience | Off-Campus 2021 (Virtual)
Interview Experience
Lowe's India
hired this year through Codeathon on HackerEarth platform.
Round 1 The first round comprised of 10 MCQ questions including aptitude, logical, and 2 coding que...
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Lowe's India
hired this year through Codeathon on HackerEarth platform.
Round 1 The first round comprised of 10 MCQ questions including aptitude, logical, and 2 coding questions one was of medium level and another one was of hard level. (Test Duration: 2.5 hours) This was one question asked in Coding round: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/sort-the-given-array-as-per-given-conditions/ And the second question was on Articulation point of Graph. Round 2(Coding Round): It was of 2 hours duration and the questions were of hard level. Topics involved were DP, Bit masking and Bit manipulation. Round 3(Technical Interview): It was a 35 minutes interview which started with the introduction. I was asked about my project and all the glitches faced and then what was the thought process behind solving it. It was more of a basic question which one can expect in an interview. He asked me one basic Exception Handling question. Then I was asked a coding question in which a machine is given an array of strings and it can contain some repeated strings as well. The task was to print the repeated string once along with the other ones. So my approach was using the map. Then he asked me in case of map, key, or value which will be permitted to have the NULL value. Then the questions were from DBMS and some basic SQL queries. Fortunately, I got selected for the HR round. Round 4(HR Round): It was a 45 minutes interview and started with the introduction. Interviewer was quite friendly. I was asked about my project and what all I learned from it on a personal level and also the challenges that I faced and my approach for solving it. Why Lowe's How do I manage to cope up with new surroundings and people. I was asked about the situation in life when I felt completely failed and then how I dealt with it. And some other questions which were quite general. She asked me whether I had any questions for her. I recommend: Do ask questions. It makes the interview interactive and shows your interest in it. Do study about the company thoroughly like what are its motive and many such details. It will help in the HR round.
Verdict Selected for a full-time offer based in Bangalore. Tip: Just be confident with all that you answer and also do believe in yourself. You're surely gonna rock it.
About This Question
This is a candidate experience report from a lowes interview for a swe role during the recruiter round reported in 2025.
It covers the following topics: Strings, Dynamic Programming, Bit Manipulation, Sql, Graph, Graphs, Arrays .
Difficulty rating: Easy
About Lowes Interview Reports
This question was reported by a candidate who interviewed at Lowes. LeakCode aggregates interview reports from 10+ sources, including 1Point3Acres, Glassdoor, LeetCode Discuss, Blind, Reddit, Indeed, and Nowcoder. Each report is translated where necessary, deduplicated against existing entries, and tagged by company, role, round type, and reporting date.
Use this question as one calibration data point, not a memorization target. Companies typically rotate their question pools every 2-4 months; the exact wording of a 2024 question may differ from what you encounter today. The underlying pattern, difficulty level, and follow-up depth at Lowes are the higher-signal extractions to take from this report.
For broader preparation context, the Lowes interview process typically includes a recruiter screen, one or two technical phone screens, and a 4-5 round on-site loop covering coding, system design (at L4+ levels), and behavioral. Reports tagged on LeakCode show the round-by-round distribution and typical difficulty calibration. To browse questions filtered by round type and seniority, use the company hub linked above.
How To Practice This Type of Question
Solve similar problems on LeetCode under timed conditions (25-35 minutes per medium difficulty). The goal is pattern recognition: recognize the underlying technique (sliding window, two-pointer, BFS, memoized recursion, etc.) within 60-90 seconds of reading. Strong candidates verbalize their hypothesis out loud before coding, then iterate based on feedback. Weak candidates dive into implementation immediately, lose time on the wrong approach, and run out of time for follow-ups.
Companies update their question pools every 2-4 months. The exact wording of any given question may have been retired by the time you interview. Focus your prep on the pattern, not the specific problem. The patterns that appear in Lowes reports consistently are the ones worth investing in; one-off niche problems are not.
During Your Lowes Round
Apply the standard interview round template: clarify requirements (2-3 minutes), state your approach out loud and confirm direction with the interviewer (3-5 minutes), code with narration (15-25 minutes), test with concrete examples including edge cases (5 minutes), discuss optimization or trade-offs if time permits (5 minutes). This template is universally accepted across FAANG and adjacent companies; deviating from it produces weaker interviewer feedback signal.
The single most predictive failure mode in Lowes reports tagged "no hire": not asking clarifying questions. Interviewers are explicitly trained to weight this. Strong candidates ask 3-5 clarifying questions even on problems that look obvious; weak candidates dive into code immediately. The clarifying-question check is often the first signal recorded in the interviewer's written notes.