Khan Academy·Software Engineer

Khan Academy Software Engineer interview experience

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Mountain View, CAPosted May 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started pretty normally: after I applied through the careers site, an internal recruiter reached out and scheduled a technical Skype interview with a developer.

The first part of the call covered my background and what I was interested in doing across Khan Academy’s variety of software work, and I remember asking about the interviewer’s own role and work/life balance and getting candid answers.

Then the interview moved into a data-structures coding question. It felt fair and not trick-based, and it matched what I would expect from someone serious about a developer career rather than testing memorization. After that, the process broadened into another round where the interviewers spent the beginning of each session telling me about themselves and

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