CCoursera·Software Engineer

Coursera Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted May 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first screen threw me off because of the way it was structured.

I was interviewing for a frontend-focused role and my primary language was JavaScript, but the recruiter asked questions using a Google Doc-style set of snippets right at the start, without any real heads-up. The questions were heavily about oddities and quirks in JavaScript, and the snippet style they used didn’t feel like the kind of code I would ever write in real engineering work.

I tried to approach it honestly and methodically instead of doing anything shortcut-like, but I ended up missing two questions. After that, I didn’t move forward to the next round, so the entire screen felt

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