Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Snap 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 46.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 156 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Snap overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Snap as a Software Engineer according to 156 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 41%
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 15%
Presentation: 9%
Group panel interview: 4%
Background check: 3%
Drug test: 1%
Personality test: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Other: 1%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Snap (Melbourne) in Sep 2016
Interview
The first round is online interview by Goolge hangouts and CodePair. An interviewer will ask you a technical question and you should write your code in CodePair. If you passed the first round, then they will invite you to the second round. This round will take about 5-6 hours. Don't worry, they will provide you a lunch. There will be 4-5 technical questions are waiting for you. Same as online interview. They will ask you to write the code in CodePair. Each time, there will be 1-3 team members who will ask you one technical question, sometimes they may add more conditions or ask you do it in a more general way if you solve it. Most of them are related to algorithm and basic data structures. There will be about one hour for each question. One of them is system design. Given a real scenario for Snapchat product, you are expected to design the interface for it.
One of the team member will bring you to have lunch. During the lunch, he may ask you some questions, like why you would like to join Snapchat. I am not sure if this is a personality test.
Basically, the team are very nice. It's a good experience. However, you may be rejected for 'not a perfect match' and they refuse to give you any reason.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
5 questions in total. 4 technical questions related to algorithm and data structures and 1 system design question.
One initial screening call. Then 1 coding screen. Then an on-site with 3 coding rounds and 1 system design round. All the rounds were pretty straightforward DSA patterns and SD was also a common question you read about in SD interview prep books.
Hard but interesting. Had to go through 1 HM round, 2 coding rounds and 2 systems design rounds. Coding round was hit counter, and message recommendation system. The System design rounds were a bit challenging.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a recommendation system for messaging to predict the next word while typing
For the technical rounds, I was asked leetcode style questions. Need to practice Data structures and algorithms in order to do well on the interviews. It's important to explain the code as you go along and clarfiy any questions with the interviewer.