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%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Personality test: 1%
Drug test: 1%
Other: 1%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Snap
Interview
It's clear to me that they don't train people to interview properly and leave a good candidate experience. Half of the interviewers were very dismissive and acted like I was wasting their time.
The interviews were really difficult, they expect you to write working code of very complex problems and make it work within the timeframe for 100% of use cases (and run it to prove it). The worst thing is how bad the interviewers act when you can't get there, it's plain and obvious and they start being dismissive in a very obvious non-hidden manner. Had interviews where I did bad in the past but generally interviewers know to act nicely and provide a good candidate experience. Not Snap!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Map-reduce for a logging mechanism (fully implemented and working)
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.