CCoursera·Software Engineer

Coursera Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jun 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop felt like a fairly clear sequence: I started with a screening-style early step, then moved into coding, project/system-style evaluation, code review, and a final hiring manager conversation.

The order I saw mattered because each round pulled me forward only if the previous one landed well.

For the technical part, I had coding interviews split into time-boxed chunks. In one round, I was able to solve the problem and still didn’t crack the bar because I ran slightly over the allotted time and needed to ask a few clarifying questions while working through the problem statement. Another coding interaction used a two-part structure on HackerRank, and the way the session was timed left little room to recover if I didn’t complete both parts.

What made it frustrating was the precision

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