CCoursera·Software Engineer

Coursera Software Engineer interview experience

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Toronto, ONPosted Aug 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I applied, I moved through a pretty standard early pipeline.

A recruiter reached out and I had a short recruiter-style screening, then the process quickly shifted into a HackerRank-style technical assessment and a follow-up technical interview. Across the technical parts, the bar felt like “medium” algorithm practice—think typical coding interview challenges—though I didn’t get a strong emphasis on rigorous time/space analysis. What stood out was how much the interviewers leaned toward practical, job-like problem solving rather than just theory.

In the technical interview itself, the conversation felt grounded in walking through the algorithm and

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