Discord·Software Engineer

Discord Software Engineer interview experience

Medium

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed at Discord for Software Engineering and experienced a medium onsite with both communication-heavy discussions and technical rounds.

Non-technical discussions — I explained my hardest technical project and key decisions in a way that worked for interviewers who weren’t deeply technical, emphasizing communication clarity.
Technical coding: etcd-based leader/follower — I downloaded etcd on my own machine and used its API to implement a simple cluster with one leader and multiple followers, working under a tight one-hour constraint.
System design round — I completed a system design interview in parallel with the coding and bug-fixing rounds.
Bug-fixing round — I addressed a debugging task as part of

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