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 online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Snap (New York, NY) in Mar 2022
Interview
I applied through linkedin, and got the call for Phone Interview which consisted of a medium question. I was further called for onsite interview of 3.5 hours. The final onsite consisted of 4 rounds. 1 coding, 2 chat with an engineer, 3 design, 4 coding
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The final round went fine there were 1 coding round of graph question, then a 30 minutes chat to ask about the company in another round. Snap also has a design round which is very strange to me given that I applied as a New grad and also the interviewer in that kept on changing requirements and asked me to develop ML server which I have no idea about, and was also not sitting in a very good environment as her wife/girlfriend kept on working behind him which made hard to concentrate.
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