I initially connected with a person at Coursera through a friend.

I had a quick fit phone interview with a recruiter, followed by a 1-hour phone interview with a team lead for the available position.

This interview was more about my skills, interests, and previous experiences rather than solving coding, design, or math challenges.

After that, I had a full day of onsite interviews. I was flying into SF to interview with several other companies, so Coursera covered only a part of my expenses for the trip.

Onsite interviews included:

• A typical whiteboard coding interview
• A 1.5-hour coding exercise on my laptop, followed by a code review
• A lunch
• An interview with a data scientist, with questions about collecting and using Coursera data to make product decisions
• Two interviews with more senior directors of product and engineering.

In a couple of days, I came back to talk to the CBO. I received an offer a week after the first onsite interview.

The most difficult part for me was working on a real coding exercise, hoping to get good working results in 1.5 hours. The exercise involved writing an AI for a game.

I also got tired by the last interviews, as the whole interviewing process took over six hours.