I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Snapdocs (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2021
Interview
Very efficient and fast moving process. I felt in the loop the entire time and supported by the recruiter. Plus, I really enjoyed speaking with everyone I met. The virtual on-site can be scheduled across 2 days to get around scheduling conflicts - especially useful with kids at home during the pandemic.
Your average, but thoughtful interview. Several steps to ensure a culture fit, preparation, coding exercise, and then a full day of 5+ interviews: Another coding session, API design, Systems Architecture, Manager fit, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function that converts a number n into it's textual representation: 1 -> 'one', 1,203 -> 'one thousand two hundred three', etc.
If you want to waste your time as a candidate on a DP interview question then this is the right company for it. I was asked for a DP problem to be solved within 30 mins and at the end even if I got close to 90% working with one particular requirement that I had missed even then they sent me a rejection email. When big tech companies are recommending against asking DP problems in their interviews here is SnapDocs trying to gauge candidates on some bs algorithms. I bet there may not be a single line of code in their application that deals with DP algorithm, in fact I bet if I had asked a different DP related question to the interviewer then he may not be able to even solve it in 60 mins.
Suggestion to the company and the SWE interviewers in this company ask questions about algorithms that at least have some application in real life business use cases, not something based on theories and try not to be a wannabe of FAANG.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Dynamic Programming related question along the lines of coin change problem
