MMozilla·Software Engineer

Mozilla Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

GermanyPosted Jun 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a call with a recruiter first, followed by a technical screening and then a behavioral interview with an engineering manager.

The next step was a take-home assignment, and that’s where things started to go downhill for me.

Everyone I talked to before the take-home felt positive and suggested the engineering culture was strong. But the assessment itself felt disconnected from the skills the role would actually need. It was framed like a LeetCode brainteaser rather than something aligned with the work, and the mismatch was especially noticeable because the real codebase they referenced used React and Redux. The questions mainly felt like they tested whether I’d memorized specific patterns rather than whether I could

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