I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Snap (Santa Monica, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
HackerRank challenge, followed by a Skype interview, followed by an in-person interview. The Hacker Rank challenge was pretty easy, the Skype interview generally focused on my resume, and the in-person interview was the standard coding challenge. Not too bad.
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