Discord Interview Questions and Guide

Real-time messaging and voice at scale: fan-out, presence, and storage for trillions of messages.

The Discord interview loop

1. Recruiter screen
2. Technical phone screen
3. Onsite: coding, system design, and behavioral

Discord interview questions

• Design WhatsApp
• Design a News Feed
• Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters
• Basic Calculator III
• The Maze
• Top K Frequent Elements
• Smallest Range Covering Elements from K Lists
• Most Stones Removed with Same Row or Column
• Combination Sum IV
• Frog Jump
• Word Search II
• Design a Content Popularity Tracker
• Tell me about a time you had to change direction mid-project
• Tell me about a time you had to cut scope