Khan Academy Software Engineer interview experience

The first step was a take-home project that took around five hours, and then I had a conversation interview focused on the project itself—how I approached it and what design techniques I used. From there, the remaining rounds were explicitly there to measure both technical ability and fit for Khan Academy.

Those later interviews came over Skype, and each one ran about an hour with a pretty consistent pace: discussion, then coding work, then time to talk and ask questions. I also remember how open-ended some of the project-to-interview bridging was; I didn’t feel like it was just about