Coursera is opening the world's most elite educational institutions to everyone in the world, and creating opportunities for people to dramatically improve their lives.
It's a mission that gets me right out of bed every morning.
The goals are audacious, and the business model is still in flux. This isn't a better mousetrap, like Uber cabs; it's a new configuration of a vast, complex ecosystem.
Focus and unify the leadership. While we have academic DNA, Coursera is competing in the short term with fast-moving Silicon Valley companies and has to move fast.
The initial phone screening, lasting 10 minutes, did not involve questions. Instead, it consisted of a briefing on the company structure, followed by the recruiter introducing the coding challenge. The coding task was to build a frontend interface f
The interview process involved two technical challenges by HackerRank. These were not overly difficult but had lengthy, somewhat unnecessary descriptions. This was followed by a technical phone screen. The final stage was a five-hour onsite intervie
An ex-colleague contacted me to come by for a happy hour. I was impressed by the quality of the people there and the leadership. The onsite involved a solid coding question requiring me to fill out the client-side business logic. The finished code
The initial phone screening, lasting 10 minutes, did not involve questions. Instead, it consisted of a briefing on the company structure, followed by the recruiter introducing the coding challenge. The coding task was to build a frontend interface f
The interview process involved two technical challenges by HackerRank. These were not overly difficult but had lengthy, somewhat unnecessary descriptions. This was followed by a technical phone screen. The final stage was a five-hour onsite intervie
An ex-colleague contacted me to come by for a happy hour. I was impressed by the quality of the people there and the leadership. The onsite involved a solid coding question requiring me to fill out the client-side business logic. The finished code