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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      3 Dec 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Discord

      Interview

      This was the first screen for a senior full stack position at Discord. The coding exercise was to build a chat server that can support multiple chat clients. There is a prompt provided to you with the MVP clearly defined. They allow the candidate to use google, stack overflow, API docs, etc to come up with your solution. The screen was ~75 min long and the interviewer was nice and helpful and very collaborative. My only negative feedback is that it seemed that the interviewer expected me as the candidate to go above and beyond the MVP, since he did ask me to implement follow up scenarios and cases after I implemented the defined MVP. I thought these were just extra things since we had completed the MVP, however I was rejected a day later, leading me to think that the interviewer's expectation was to successfully implement all the follow ups. I think it would be helpful if this was actually explicitly stated in the prompt, therefore setting objective expectations for the candidate. I would also consider what type of screen is appropriate for the position the candidate is applying for. As a full stack engineer, unless you have previous experience in building a chat server/protocol, you probably don't use socket programming, connections/disconnections, event emitters on a frequent basis. The exercise/project should be tailored to the specific position.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Build a chat server that can support multiple clients
      Answer question
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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      3 Sept 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Discord

      Interview

      Applied -> Recruiter -> HM -> Tech Screen. First three rounds went great, but the Tech Screen was a very different experience, and felt very out of time with modern software interviewing practices.

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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      19 Jun 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Discord in Jun 2025

      Interview

      Seemed pretty organized. The "resources"section tells you that they will ask you to build a chat app using TCP clients. I did and practice or reading on it. During the interview, they didn't want you looking at ai responses when you Google. Googling for documentation is allowed. Got the code working that satisfied all requirements. They asked some questions on how would you do this and that after as well. Got rejected soon after. Not really sure where my performance warranted a rejection but oh well.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Build chat server handling multiple TCP clients.
      Answer question
      1

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      9 Feb 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Discord

      Interview

      Recruiter reached out after seeing my application. They already had asked me to install telnet on my system and about building a chat server using sockets. Did a background reading on that. Got the code working during the interview with some guidance from the interviewers. It should handle multiple clients. Got rejected next day. No feedback, nothing. Not sure what the interviewers want these days - a fully working Whatsapp ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ within 1 hr?
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