I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at D2L (Kitchener, ON) in Jul 2011
Interview
I applied for the job before I relocated to Kitchener-Waterloo. First I got a phone pre-screening from HR to check my background. Then I got a phone interview with one project manager and one software developer asking me both technical and non-technical questions. After that HR contacted me saying that they would like to continue but not until I moved to Waterloo. Three months later I moved to Waterloo and continued the interview process. I had two on-site interviews with two different groups. The second interview went pretty well as they seemed satisfied with my experience with web application development. The technical questions mainly involve details in web app development such as performance optimization, security, usability, etc. My previous experience was a definite match. After all the interviews, they also asked for three references and transcript.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How would you optimize the performance of a web application, on both front-end and back-end?
How would you design and implement a search box widget with suggestion drop down? How would fix these bugs found by QA: no search result, incorrect search result, etc.?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at D2L in Apr 2026
Interview
3 rounds: HR interview, simple coding interview, and managers interview.
The managers interview was going well until the energy of the manager who was hiring suddenly changed, perhaps a response I gave was not to his liking. He gave the typical "I've run out of questions", and then the other manager asked questions, but later puzzlingly he had more questions. Asked for feedback after from the HR, but they didn't respond.
It was good. Four steps. Phone call, Tech, Manger and a Team. Phone call explain to you all the details and what to expect. Tech interview checks your OOP knowledge and being able to spot something, plus a leetcode task, no need working code, but working logic solution. Manager haas their own questions.
Friendly and communicative process, they dont ghost candidates. Questions were easy, dont get nervous in tech round. Especially the coding review. Leetcode problems were easy in beginning rounds (arrays). Be very communicative in tech rounds too. Give your approach and ask the interviewer some questions.
