Duolingo·Software Engineer

Duolingo Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Pittsburgh, PAPosted Jan 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an online assessment and got two coding questions: one easy and one medium.

I didn’t feel confident about the second one, and I didn’t do well on it, but I still passed the assessment and moved on.

In the coding portion that followed, the next screen felt even more like a traditional LeetCode-style problem. The interviewer gave little to no hints, so I had to drive the solution mostly on my own rather than getting nudged through when I got stuck. That lack of guidance made it harder to find the right path quickly.

Even though I made it past the OA, I didn’t end up getting an offer. What stuck with me afterward was how much the process relied on independent

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