MMozilla·Software Engineer

Mozilla Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Vancouver, BCPosted Feb 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied for a Mozilla internship in the third week of December, and not long after, I got an email from a “Mozilla Hiring Team” inviting me to take a HackerRank programming challenge.

The email was generic and didn’t include much context. I couldn’t take it right away because I got injured, so I emailed back asking if I could delay by a week or two.

I didn’t hear back, so I waited until I recovered and took the test about ten days later. The assessment itself was long—two hours—with two text-answer questions and three coding questions. I wasn’t able to finish the final coding question within the time limit because I ran into a bug that forced me to restructure my approach. By the time I submitted, I was exhausted from the nonstop coding.

A month passed and I was still

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