CCoursera·Software Engineer

Coursera Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Dec 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

One interview I had felt disrespectful and oddly careless.

The lead engineer didn’t introduce himself and immediately jumped into questions. The interviewer seemed to drift midway through, didn’t really engage when I tried to clarify something, and I had to ask multiple times just to get a response. The interaction style was minimal and not conversational, so it never felt like I could fully correct course.

Another round I experienced had the opposite kind of disruption—logistics and environment issues that made the whole thing feel like a stress test. I was dealing with a network problem that took a while to get sorted out, and the interview

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