I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Snap in Oct 2019
Interview
They contacted me via LinkedIn. I set up a call pretty quickly. It was a video call interview. The first part was telling the interviewer about myself. The second half was a technical question. It was pretty straight forward. Algorithmic solution. My interviewer helped me when I stumbled throughout the process.
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.
