CCoursera·Software Engineer

Coursera Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Mountain View, CAPosted Sep 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied to Coursera and heard back with a short HackerRank challenge first.

I finished that, then a few days later I got another, longer HackerRank link that ran for about three hours. After I sent my solution in, an engineer called me to walk through it and answer anything I still had questions about. The process dragged on a bit from there, and roughly two weeks after that call I went to their Mountain View office for a full-day loop with multiple conversations.

At the onsite, I talked with five different people. There was a long coding project segment that lasted about two hours, plus behavioral questions and two separate whiteboarding sessions that each ran

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