Curriculum Designer applicants have rated the interview process at Duolingo with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 45% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Curriculum Designer roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 11 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Duolingo overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Duolingo as a Curriculum Designer according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
One on one interview: 21%
Background check: 7%
Group panel interview: 7%
Presentation: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Duolingo (Pittsburgh, PA) in Apr 2021
Interview
I had some great informational interviews with Duo employees prior to this process; people were really welcoming. Following a 15-minute screening call with HR and a short hiring task I was asked for a second interview with someone in the Learning and Curriculum team.
I was not informed by HR that this would be a technical interview and that I should prepare for new questions. Unfortunately, while I prepared for some followup questions about my hiring task, I mostly prepared for a general past experience/cultural fit interview.
The second interview was roughly 30 minutes of new tasks along with some open-ended followup questions about my hiring task. It was clear from the questions and from my interviewer's hesitancy to help me out with answering them that the hiring team was looking for someone with strong prior experience in ed tech and unfortunately I would have needed some training in order to be brought onboard for the role. I received a boilerplate rejection within a week or so. The HR team did not respond to my request for feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hiring task: design a lesson, then propose revisions to a drafted lesson.
Phone screen, take-home task, then interview with hiring manager.
The hiring process felt one-sided. Both interviewers left less than 5 min for candidate questions. The take-home task was 3 separate tasks with multiple parts, and it was due before even meeting the hiring manager.
FYI, they're very rigid about the Pittsburgh onsite requirement.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a lesson to teach the English articles (a/an/the)?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Duolingo (Pittsburgh, PA) in Jul 2024
Interview
Short interview with another curriculum designer followed by technical task. Task tested ways of breaking down language lessons in digestible chunks. Unfortunately, I did not move beyond this point in the interview process.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Duolingo in May 2022
Interview
The interview process was comprised of several steps. After accepting my application, I was asked to complete a short task that served as the basis for my first interview. After that, I had several short interviews with people in different positions in the company.