Coursera Software Engineer interview experience

After I applied through different routes—online and career fairs—I would usually receive an OA on HackerRank fairly quickly. Some challenges were extremely short or trivial in comparison to what the site suggested, and others had a clear time limit of around an hour for two problems. I remember topics like date-format logic, sorting/math-style tasks, and other coding prompts where the second question was more time-consuming.

In a few runs, I was told I passed the first online screen and then went quiet for weeks. I’d get a sense of progress—sometimes even a “passed OA” type of message—and