CCoursera·Software Engineer

Coursera Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jun 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Coursera attempt was centered heavily on online assessments.

I started with two HackerRank-style OA rounds, and each one had two questions. I got through both sets in about a week, and then I received a phone call that moved me into a live online technical segment.

That next step asked me to finish two questions in an hour, with the whole thing happening on HackerRank. The experience was overall manageable and I felt like I was doing fine on the tasks, but the process ended with rejection. The timeline was fairly quick after the live round—I got results a few days later—and then I never progressed beyond that.

What surprised me most was the broader

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