Coursera Software Engineer interview experience

One of the decisive moments was a hard regex-focused coding problem, very much in the spirit of LeetCode—even though it was slightly different from what I expected, it tested the same kind of string pattern reasoning.

The timeline also included additional stages after that initial screening, and I had another technical interaction beyond the regex challenge. There was also a whiteboard/system-design-and-code-review style segment in the loop, which made the process feel broader than just algorithms. Even though I got through to the later meetings, the format still demanded that I stay sharp