I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Snap (Los Angeles, CA) in Jan 2019
Interview
got an interview by an employee referral. Someone from Snap contacted me to check my availability for a an initial phone screening. The phone screening was one hour to test your coding skills using hackerrank.
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.
