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Coursera Software Engineer interview experience

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CanadaPosted Aug 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying, I started with a recruiter phone screen where we covered my background, compensation expectations, and whether the role fit what I’d been doing.

About a week later I moved into a technical interview where I solved a LeetCode-style coding problem at a medium difficulty, and the interviewer also asked a follow-up question after I finished.

Once that went reasonably well, I was scheduled for a second technical round. That round ended up being multiple back-to-back sessions: I worked through live coding problem-solving again and then shifted into deeper engineering-style discussion. The tone stayed pretty standard and interviewers seemed focused on how I reasoned through the problem, not just whether I got to the final answer.

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