QQuora, Inc.·Software Engineer

Quora, Inc. Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted May 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got contacted for a phone screen and the experience started abruptly, without much framing.

The interviewer basically went straight into a technical prompt and didn’t really ask about my background or walk through the plan. There wasn’t much room to ease in—if I could execute, I’d continue, and if I couldn’t, I’d fail.

The technical portion itself was hard in a way that felt less like “hard coding” and more like “hard to communicate while coding.” I also got the sense the interviewer wasn’t very experienced. The whole dynamic felt off: the interviewer was focused on the mechanics of getting an answer rather than helping me through ambiguity, and the lack of helpful back-and-forth

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