J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Discord (San Francisco, CA) en avr. 2017
Entretien
1.) Introduction Phone Call
2.) Technical phone call
3.) Onsite -> 3 tech interviews -> Culture fit Lunch -> Closing interview with CMO
All in all I think discord has a great product and I support the gaming community. However their interview process was pretty awful and not made to be successful.
For a senior position they interviewed me with three technical 1:1's and two of those interviews were with junior employees who asked questions they didn't even know the answer to.
An example of this is
Interviewer: "Just make the api return standard Http codes for endpoints."
Me: "So you want 201 created?"
Interviewer: "I don't know. Whatever the standard is. That sounds okay."
Interviewer: "You have this data structure in the file"
Me: "So it looks like this?"
Interviewer looks at laptop: "I'm not sure. Let me read through the question."
Me: "Can I see the question?"
Interviewer: "That's not necessary, I can explain it to you."
So we spent 20 minutes of each tech interview chit-chatting because they were nervous about interviewing someone. Then 20 minutes follow up trying to figure out the actual specs of the question and then 10-12 minutes coding up something hacky cause I don't code in a scripting language.
It was a pretty brutal experience overall, as well as the hiring manager didn't even meet me at all during the process.
The company seems to believe it can capitalize on some fantasy market that only they know about as well. When asked about company direction it sounded like 're-invent' all the other chat apps, and just market towards gamers.
It was very difficult not because of the questions, but because the process was very naive and ill designed.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Given a file (on interviewers laptop which took 10 minutes to email / airdrop) parse json and run aggregate statistics.
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.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 1 semaine. J'ai passé un entretien chez Discord en juin 2025
Entretien
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.
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?