Quora, Inc. Interview Questions
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Quora, Inc.
Senior Sourcer
Senior Average Positive experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
Applied on Glassdoor and heard back from the Recruiter quickly. Had a good interview with her where she was engaged with what I shared, asked good questions, and was open to my questions. The next step was an interview with the hiring manager who asked about my past experience. Didn't get the job but got some specific feedback.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you describe a time you dealt with a challenging stakeholder?
Quora, Inc.
Staff Software Engineer
Staff Average Negative experience No offer 7 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral
I decided not to proceed after reviewing the interview materials. It would have been a total of 7 hours of interviews, with about 4.5 hours focused on coding, none of which seemed directly related to the role. The project sounded interesting initially, but it felt poorly managed with minimal developer freedom. Honestly, everything they said, presented, or my questions raised red flags. To top it off, it was obvious none of the interviewers had actually read my resume until we were on the call. Save yourself the time and don't commit a full workday to interview with a company like this. You deserve better.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you tell me about a recent project you were involved in?
Quora, Inc.
IOS Engineer
Mid Difficult Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Coding
I saw the job posting on Welcome to The Jungle and applied. After three days, the recruiter emailed to set up a call to chat about my background and the job. Next, I talked with the hiring manager who was really into my past experience and asked loads of questions. Then came a technical interview they called "building from scratch," which is a 60-minute deal where you code something in Xcode live while screen-sharing. They said I'd get specifics on what to build during the interview, but that didn't happen. They showed me a random YouTube video of Pong and asked me to build it. It was a struggle, and I couldn't figure out how it connected to Quora. I got turned down a few days later.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Do you know what Pong is? The game, build it from scratch in Xcode in this 60-minute interview while sharing your screen.
Quora, Inc.
AI Partnership Lead
Lead Easy Negative experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Recruiter call
Interview formats
Behavioral
So I applied online and then got a link to schedule an interview with a recruiter. The email with the link had some company info, like about their new product and what they value. The interview itself was 30 minutes and felt super fast and not very personal. The recruiter didn't seem ready and just asked a couple of basic things about my background and what salary I was looking for. We didn't really talk much about my skills or the job itself. I was kinda surprised they weren't more engaged, especially with my 15 years of experience, and it all felt very by-the-book.
Confirmed questions4 questions
- Can you introduce yourself?
- What are your current job responsibilities?
- What are your salary expectations?
Quora, Inc. Interview Questions
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“Find the longest substring in a given string that has no more than 2 unique characters.”
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Read reports →“How many moves minimum does a king need to get from its initial position to another spot on the chessboard?”
Read reports →“Given a binary tree and a target sum, find the count of paths that add up to that target.”
Read report →“What's the minimum number of moves for a king to travel from its starting square to another square on the chessboard, considering there might be guards present? Any number of guards can be positioned on the chessboard, blocking the king's path to those squares.”
Read report →“Given a matrix with obstacles, find the shortest path between two points, where movement is restricted to four cardinal directions.”
Read report →“Given an array, can you change k consecutive elements from 0 to 1 and vice versa? If it's not possible to perform the operation, return -1, otherwise return the count.”
Read report →“Given integers n, m, and a list of queries, provide a list containing the answer for each query.”
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