CCoursera·Software Engineer

Coursera Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Irvine, CAPosted Jul 2013 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and a recruiter got in touch within a couple of days to set up a phone interview.

The first phone conversation went pretty well, with the main topics being a self-introduction and my past projects, plus a freshman-level programming question that I handled without issues. There was also a bit of logistics friction around rescheduling, but the technical part didn’t feel stressful.

A second phone interview was scheduled the next day, and it was with a developer. We went straight into two programming questions and I solved both without any trouble. Even so, a rejection email arrived a couple of days later and it didn’t include any real explanation.

That last part was

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