IIXL Learning·Software Engineer

IXL Learning Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jun 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter outreach where we went over the role and the team, then I talked through my background—what I’d done, what I was interested in, and the programming languages I’d been using.

After that, I moved into a phone screen that felt very algorithm-focused. The coding portion was essentially “LeetCode-style” and leaned on the hard tier from the common top-question set.

A bit later, I got hit with a harder assessment delivered through HackerRank. The difficulty surprised me because it was my first real coding gate in the process. The problems leaned heavily toward array and string manipulation, and the expectations were as much about printing the output in the exact format they wanted as they were about getting to the right logic.

Overall, the feeling was that they were

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