I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Discord (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2020
Interview
Discord was one of my favorite interview processes. I've had a few conversations just prior to the technical interviews that were on team matching. They really care about where their candidates fit into the company.
It's really cool that the onsite was done over Discord. People really care about the product and building a healthy culture at Discord. The hiring bar is really high and it really shows through the interview questions that they ask.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Non-conventional interview questions around building something from scratch.
Onsite was several technical and 1-2 values 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.
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.
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?