Course Hero Software Engineer interview experience

From there, I went through a combination of an interview with an engineering manager and multiple coding-focused rounds, followed by a system design discussion and then a culture-fit step. The process also reached the CTO round, which made the later stages feel weightier.

What surprised me positively was how collaborative the interviews were. The people I spoke with were polite, joyful, and genuinely engaged—more like teammates talking through problems than interviewers trying to score points. Even when the rounds were clearly technical—coding, then system design—the interviews stayed