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%
Personality test: 1%
Drug test: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Other: 1%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Snap (New York, NY)
Interview
The interview process was fairly standard but communication from the recruiting team was very poor. The interview consisted of a phone call with a recruiter and two technical interviews, the recruiter was wonderful but the tech interviewer was incredibly rude and disinterested throughout the entire call. I was told I would hear back in a few days, two weeks later I still had not heard any word so I followed up twice and had to wait another two weeks for any kind of response.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One oof the questions was a medium difficulty question that revolved around sorting a dictionary.
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.
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.
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