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Preliminary 1 hour coding exercise: 1. Write 3 functions for performing regex-like string matching, from simple to most complex. The long interview: 2. Provide a PR review on GitHub 3. Coding challenge: text line wrapping 4. Free form chat with your future manager 5. SW architecture discussion: design a new feature based on an existing one 6. Technical deep-dive: discuss a past project in-depth, talk about technical decisions and consequences 7. Final debrief with the recruiter
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Coursera

3.7★
Apr 24, 2020

Preliminary 1 hour coding exercise: 1. Write 3 functions for performing regex-like string matching, from simple to most complex. The long interview: 2. Provide a PR review on GitHub 3. Coding challenge: text line wrapping 4. Free form chat with your future manager 5. SW architecture discussion: design a new feature based on an existing one 6. Technical deep-dive: discuss a past project in-depth, talk about technical decisions and consequences 7. Final debrief with the recruiter

The most unexpected thing was that I wasn't asked any of the standard questions that you would expect where you are asked to describe certain terms. For example, "What is a virtual constructor?" or "How would you find and fix a memory leak?". I was glad to not be asked such questions and that they focused on the most important thing: can you design good software to solve a problem. It was also nice that I didn't have to do any whiteboard coding. The whiteboard was only used to describe the problems by the interviewers and my proposed high-level solutions.
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at athenahealth

4.1★
May 27, 2014

The most unexpected thing was that I wasn't asked any of the standard questions that you would expect where you are asked to describe certain terms. For example, "What is a virtual constructor?" or "How would you find and fix a memory leak?". I was glad to not be asked such questions and that they focused on the most important thing: can you design good software to solve a problem. It was also nice that I didn't have to do any whiteboard coding. The whiteboard was only used to describe the problems by the interviewers and my proposed high-level solutions.

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