Khan Academy·Software Engineer

Khan Academy Software Engineer interview experience

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Mountain View, CAPosted Feb 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a Khan Academy process that was clearly anchored around a small project and then a sequence of code-focused interviews.

After applying online, I ended up doing a project first. The timeline wasn’t rushed, but it also wasn’t vague in how it structured the work.

After submitting, I had an initial interview that functioned like a code review of what I’d produced, then a few more interviews that were technical in different ways. In each of those Skype sessions, the format was consistent: a chunk of time talking through my background and the decisions I made, a longer period coding, and then time left for questions and a more open discussion about Khan Academy.

What stood out was how the conversations were really

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