Company profile
Discord runs the voice, video, and text platform with 200m+ monthly active users, with a strong gaming heritage and a growing community subscription product. The loop is well-known online - a technical phone screen, a take-home or live coding session, a system design centred on realtime messaging, and a values round.
Discord operates in the social media space with a headcount around 900, which usually puts hiring in a middle zone: repeatable enough to have defined stages, small enough that the team you would join runs most of the loop. For frontend engineer, backend engineer, database engineer candidates that generally means a recruiter conversation, skill rounds led by future teammates, and a closing conversation with a senior leader. The role pages below break down the questions for each function.
Discord hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
Frontend engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
Backend engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
Database engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
Developer relations engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
Elixir engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
Embedded engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
Engineering manager interview questions and process at Discord.
Forward-deployed engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
Approximate senior median pay for Discord's core roles, anchored to San Francisco and modelled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not Discord offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Discord holds a 4.0 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 4.0