QQuora, Inc.·Software Engineer

Quora, Inc. Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Nov 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an initial screening by a hiring manager, then moved into a phone screen with a junior engineer on the team.

The questions were very much in the lane of fresh, straightforward LeetCode-style prompts—nothing overly exotic. I had working code in the end, but I still didn’t move forward, and that was the first time I’d experienced rejection despite feeling like the technical portion was complete.

What stuck with me most was the communication setup and how the call felt. There was an echo where I could hear myself talking back, which made it harder to stay confident and keep my flow. The questions also felt oddly familiar, like they were drawing from the same pool of topics.

I left the process with a

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