I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Snap (Los Angeles, CA) in Aug 2017
Interview
Got contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn. First was given a hackerrank challenge. After that a phone screen using coderpad. Questions were pretty much in line with the ones mentioned on glassdoor. Answered the question and two more follow-up questions and ran the test cases as per the interviewer. Received an email after a week that they do not find a fit. Don't know what went wrong as they never give any feedback.
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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.
Interviewer is not good, has an accent and doesn’t point you in the right direction. Did not seem to be on your side the whole time. It was not a very nice experience.
