Duolingo·Backend Engineer

Duolingo Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Pittsburgh, PAPosted Sep 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I kept moving through the process fairly quickly.

The first technical conversation felt doable, and it was very focused on the kinds of data-structure details I expected—enough that I solved it without much help, and the interviewer came across as pretty chill. Still, I didn’t get an offer afterward.

In a separate run, I went through a phone screen and then had a one-hour technical coding interview with another software engineer. That round was purely technical, and I managed to work through the problem while still having some time left to talk through my thinking and share how I was approaching it. I thought that conversation went solidly,

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