Coursera

Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Toronto, Ontario

September 1, 2025

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Interviewed with recruiting first. That was fine. Was told I was not allowed to use online help. Software is developed using online help. Barely finished. Did it with online help after and finished in 20 mins.

Questions

LeetCode, which seems to be an industry standard now, does not test anything.

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Coursera's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Toronto, Ontario is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Coursera's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Toronto, Ontario.

Coursera Interview Questions

Text Justification

Hard

Given a sequence of words and a line width, format the text to fit within the specified width. You must justify the text, distributing extra spaces evenly between words.

ArraysStrings

N-th Tribonacci Number

Easy

Calculate the N-th Tribonacci number, where each number is the sum of the previous three numbers. You're given the value of N, and initial values for the first three Tribonacci numbers.

ArraysDynamic Programming

Minimum Increment to Make Array Unique

Medium

You're given an array of numbers. Find the minimum number of increments needed to make all the numbers in the array unique.

ArraysGreedy Algorithms