Duolingo·Software Engineer

Duolingo Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

United StatesPosted Jun 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was a recruiter screening, but the real time sink was a take-home task that I spent a long time working through.

After I turned it in, I didn’t hear anything back for weeks—no rejection either, just silence. Eventually I had to follow up, and a month later I learned they’d chosen someone else, and by then I felt like I’d effectively already moved on to the fact that it wouldn’t work out.

Another time in the process, I talked with the recruiter and then moved quickly to a hiring manager conversation. That part caught me off guard because they tested me with a task very similar to what I’d already done in the take-home. It didn’t feel great that there was no real runway to prepare since the timing was so

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