QQuora, Inc.·Software Engineer

Quora, Inc. Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Oct 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started like the usual Quora sequence: a phone screen with an engineer followed by more coding-focused evaluation.

The questions were leetcode-style but still genuinely difficult, and the theme was that they expected precision and clean execution while you’re coding live.

On one round, I felt good about solving a hard problem in decent time, but I later realized there was a tiny bug. Even with that, the rejection still came through, and it left me feeling like the interviewer had very high expectations and was looking for exactly what they had in mind.

Another time, I was asked a problem about moving between chess-board locations, with a second part that was especially tough. I explained the approach,

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