CCoursera·Software Engineer

Coursera Software Engineer interview experience

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Mountain View, CAPosted Sep 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and a recruiter reached out a few days later.

My first conversation was a phone interview with a development manager, and it was focused enough that I felt like we were mainly sizing up my background, but then I got hit with a graph algorithm during the call. After that, they moved me forward and I had an onsite about two weeks later.

The onsite ended up being a full set of rounds—five in total. One of the early interviews was a long coding session where I worked through problems on the spot, and I also remember speaking with senior leadership during multiple rounds: I talked with the engineering director and the CPO in separate

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