QQuora, Inc.·Software Engineer

Quora, Inc. Software Engineer interview experience

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PolandPosted Feb 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I kicked things off over email with a recruiter and then ended up doing a phone screen.

The recruiter chat felt laid-back and pretty informal, and the whole process moved quickly enough that it didn’t drag on forever—roughly two weeks end to end.

After that, I had a technical interview where I coded using a collaborative web text editor. The format was pretty coding-exercise focused and, honestly, it was fairly difficult compared to how casual the recruiter step felt. The topics stuck to fundamentals and implementation: hexadecimal arithmetic, number-system style reasoning, and an algorithm question about checking whether a binary tree qualifies as a BST given the root. I also

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