Company profile
Discord
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.
Interview process
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.
Questions and process by role
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
Frontend engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
engineering - Backend engineer
Backend engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
engineering - Database engineer
Database engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
engineering - Developer relations engineer
Developer relations engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
engineering - Elixir engineer
Elixir engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
engineering - Embedded engineer
Embedded engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
engineering - Engineering manager
Engineering manager interview questions and process at Discord.
engineering - Forward-deployed engineer
Forward-deployed engineer interview questions and process at Discord.
engineering
Salary signal
Approximate senior median pay for Discord's core roles, anchored to San Francisco and modeled 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.
Employee reviews
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