I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Snap (Santa Monica, CA) in Dec 2022
Interview
Recruiter reached out through LinkedIn, I was scheduled for a technical interview with a SWE. Figured out later that my grad date doesn't match what they were looking for :/
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Medium Data Structure and and Algorithms problems.
I messaged a recruiter on LinkedIn who was able to get me a technical interview. After the initial get-to-know-each-other questions, I was asked two leetcode type of questions on hackerrank. The interviewer was very nice and patient even when I froze and couldn't think clearly.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Snap in Apr 2022
Interview
30 minute interview with trivial programming questions and behavioral questions
followed by 5 hour project based interview with 4 rounds, 5 parts, a 30 minute break, and 30 min QA
My interview experience was very poor. I solved all problems efficiently and my interviewers had positive feedback. However, after 2 weeks of silence I was rejected without explanation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Parse input and generate database of objects from input data
Filter and sort data structure by object field
searching for substring in string without built in functions
