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. I interviewed at Snap (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2019
Interview
One of the worst companies (close to Airbnb) when hiring (questionwise).
Their code questions are not meaningful. Their interviewers are young and inexperienced so they will ask the hardest question they find in leetcode. That mean that if you get hired you will be working with few very smart people and many lucky people who were lucky to review those problems before.
You can see why Google, Facebook or Amazon are the best on hiring process. Their questions are hard but they not that hard that can not be completed if you have never seen the problem before.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic calculator III
Leetcode 772
Just a matter of parsing, executing symbols and recursive call the function when (). However, if you have never done this problem, comming up with a working code for the first time in 45 min, without a real debugger, becomes impossible.
If you are lucky enough to have practiced it on leetcode, you will produce the code in no time.
That's the people Snapchat is hiring....
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.