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Screna has 11 LendingClub interview write-ups. The most reported round is the hiring manager screen (6).

11 interview notes · updated Jul 2026

LendingClub·Data Scientist·Technical Phone Screen

Jul 2026
Live SQL coding session for a risk analytics role at LendingClub. Pretty straightforward setup, one task on a loans table, and they watched you type in real time which adds a weird pressure even when the problem itself isn't that hard.
  • Given a loans table with columns for borrower ID, amount, and status, write a SQL query that returns each borrower's total loan amount for active loans only, sorted by borrower ID ascending.

“Not a hard question at all.”

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LendingClub·Product Manager·Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy

Jul 2026
Product sense question at LendingClub, just the one question but it's a pretty meaty one. Felt like a design exercise more than a typical PM screen.
  • How would you design a product to teach children about investing?

“I went straight to the user and started segmenting by age because a 7-year-old and a 14-year-old are basically different species.”

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LendingClub·Data Scientist·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026
LendingClub data scientist interview had a live coding portion where they pulled up a shared editor and asked a Python or Java question on the spot. Pretty standard algorithmic stuff but the live environment adds pressure.
  • Given an array of integers and a target value, return true if any two distinct elements in the array sum to the target, false otherwise.

“Classic two-sum.”

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LendingClub·Product Manager·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026
Interviewed at LendingClub for what seemed like a product or engineering role touching autonomous systems. The content was pretty sparse so hard to say much beyond that one question came up about self-driving cars, which felt like it came out of nowhere for a fintech company.
  • How would you approach launching and testing a self-driving car?

“Weird question for a lending company, right?”

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LendingClub·Product Manager·Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy

Jun 2026
Short LendingClub product interview with one question about creative products. Not much to go on from this one.
  • What is the most creative product you have ever come across?

“I blanked for a second and just named something obvious.”

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LendingClub·Product Manager·Hiring Manager Screen

Jun 2026
Short LendingClub PM interview, basically just one question about your core principles as a product manager. Not much else to go on.
  • What are your core principles as a Product Manager?

“I rambled a bit.”

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LendingClub·Product Manager·Hiring Manager Screen

Jun 2026
Short LendingClub interview, just one question about working with marketing. Not much to go on but figured I'd log it.
  • How do you collaborate with the marketing team?

“Pretty standard cross-functional question.”

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LendingClub·Product Manager·Hiring Manager Screen

Jun 2026
Interviewed at LendingClub for a product role, two questions both centered on credit product strategy. Short session, felt more like a screen than a deep dive.
  • How do you decide which credit products to build and launch for borrowers?
  • Once you've decided on a credit product, how do you determine which borrower segments to target first?

“I went straight to market sizing and risk appetite, probably too fast.”

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LendingClub·Software Engineer·Hiring Manager Screen

May 2026
Quick behavioral question from LendingClub, nothing too wild. Just the one question about motivation so hard to get a real read on how the process went.
  • What gets you excited at work, and what tends to drain your motivation?

“I rambled a bit on the 'excited' part and then kind of undersold the demotivation side because I was scared of sounding negative.”

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LendingClub·Data Scientist·Hiring Manager Screen

May 2026
Hiring manager round for a Data Scientist role at LendingClub. The vibe was clearly stress-testing whether you'd survive a high-churn, overtime-heavy environment, so basically every question was some variation of 'how do you cope when things are bad.'
  • Tell me about a time you faced an unexpected change at work and how you handled it.
  • Describe a major professional challenge you overcame. What did you learn from it?
  • How do you manage multiple competing deadlines without letting quality slip?
  • What strategies do you use to stay effective during prolonged periods of stress or heavy overtime?

“Pretty standard behavioral but the context matters here.”

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