The interview process had three stages:

• Initial screening call with the internal recruiter
• One-hour preliminary coding assignment through HackerRank
• Almost six hours of in-depth online interviewing (due to COVID-19; otherwise, it would have been in person) with six interviewers.

All process communication was timely. All calls occurred on schedule to the minute. Every question I had was answered, and if the answer wasn't known at the time of the call, people looped back to me when they had the information.

I especially liked that I was interviewed by many people from different parts of the organization and at different engineering levels. I had an opportunity to ask my own questions to each of them, giving me a good inside view of my prospective new employer. Having a junior dev conduct one of the interviews was a nice touch that told me good things about Coursera's company culture.

Preliminary 1-hour coding exercise:

1. Write three functions for performing regex-like string matching, from simple to most complex.

The long interview:

1. Provide a PR review on GitHub.
2. Coding challenge: text line wrapping.
3. Free-form chat with your future manager.
4. SW architecture discussion: design a new feature based on an existing one.
5. Technical deep-dive: discuss a past project in-depth, talk about technical decisions and consequences.
6. Final debrief with the recruiter.