Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Discord (San Francisco, CA) nel mese di feb 2023
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I interviewed for a Staff systems and applied ML role. They declined to extend an offer, which is fair since my interviews weren't perfect. But their feedback included some discriminatory comments (related to ageism, parental status, etc). Hopefully a misunderstanding, but just to be safe don't buy their "space for everyone" hype. Additionally, in retrospect, their levels are inflated. They told me Staff is Google-L6, but my guess is it's more like L5 (based on my working at L6, the relative technical shallowness of the interviews, and the fact that the my onsite slate had no Staff engineers or senior managers). That said the process was fast, everyone seemed great, and there was a much wider range of gender presentation etc than I saw at other companies (yay!). I think Discord has a lot of potential. It sucks that it seems to be a high-drama workplace.
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Be prepared to invest a lot of time. These interviews literally took 2x as much time as some others. Phone screen (coding, not leetcode, not the chat server question mentioned in other reviews) -> Group interview (presentation with slides of past project) -> 7+ hour virtual onsite (coding, two high-level ML design interviews, two culture-fit interviews, a 1:1 project retrospective).
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Discord nel mese di apr 2026
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phone screen, AI allowed interview. Pretty sure I failed this because I let the AI do the system design for me, and just agreed with what it had. Practice system design before going in.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite segnalazione di un dipendente. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Discord (San Francisco, CA) nel mese di gen 2026
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Recruiter screen, technical screen, virtual onsite with 4 rounds (two technical, 2 behavioral). Overall experience was good, recruiters were kind and had a quick turnaround for updates. They even gave a doordash gift card for interviewing with them,
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a trie related problem to search for certain words
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Discord nel mese di giu 2025
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I was not at all impressed by the interview process. The recruiter is slow to work with, and even if they do get you scheduled, the technical screen is pretty much pointless. Even if you arrive at a good solution, you may or may not move onto the six-round onsite.
I moved onto the technical screen call and did exactly what the interviewer wanted me to, yet was unable to move onto the onsite round. I did not enjoy the interview, really, as it was more of a coding monkey challenge.. not much back and forth discussion.
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Code up a small server side application, test using multiple clients