QQuora, Inc.·Software Engineer

Quora, Inc. Software Engineer interview experience

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Pasadena, CAPosted Apr 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I received a HackerRank challenge by email as the first step.

After finishing it, I heard back from a recruiter for a phone behavioral interview. The odd part was that the technical part went fine in my mind—I had solved the challenge—but that didn’t seem to matter once the phone interview happened.

During the recruiter call, I expected at least some discussion that might reconcile the earlier success, but I still got rejected after the phone interview. The end-to-end path felt straightforward but also a little opaque: I couldn’t figure out what the final issue was.

I left with the impression that passing the coding test wasn’t a guarantee of moving

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