I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Snap (Los Angeles, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
Had a Google Hangout interview where I went over two fairly simple coding problems. The engineer was really kind and helpful even when I made small bugs. Moved on to the on-site a few weeks later.
For the on-site, you're in a small interview office on the boardwalk. You code on your laptop. I had 4 interviewers, and most of my interviewers weren't particularly friendly, except for 1. They all ask the same questions about your internships for 15 minutes, which is nice and all, but it takes away quite a bit of time from coding. Your code has to work 100% on all test cases. 1 interviewer wouldn't talk to me or look at my code until I was done, so I awkwardly talked about what I was coding to myself while he worked on his laptop. There's really no room for error, so you have to be prepared to write bug-free code very quickly. Even though most of the algorithms are fine if you study (dynamic programming, backtracking), it's still complex to code in a limited amount of time.
The whole on-site left a pretty bad taste in my mouth, and I would not want to work there in the future.
1st round-45 min tech, 15 min behavioral
final onsite-3 x 45 min tech, 15 min behavioral
was asked leetcode style questions with follow-ups for each, behavioral was about prior experience with their values
The whole of interview is as follows :
1. Initial screening round (1 round - 1 hour)
2. Onsite round (5 rounds - 5.5 hours)
3. Getting an Offer letter
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Initial screening round (1 hour) : One coding question, medium level on leetcode.
2. Onsite round (5 rounds) : 4 Technical round + 1 Behavioral round.
Round 1 & 2 : Design a game which has multiple
phases with increasing difficulty of each phase.
Round 3 : Two questions - one easy and one
medium level
Round 4 : one hard level trie related question
Round 5 : very interactive behavioral round for 30
mins.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Snap (Mountain View, CA) in Mar 2021
Interview
1st round technical and then 4 round onsite interview. All technical. Some people are really great. It looks like the manager doesn't believe in you and doesn't know what they are looking for. Really appreciate the recruiters though. They are always helpful and very interactive.
