I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Snap (Los Angeles, CA) in Jul 2016
Interview
Applied online. Scheduled for a Google Hangout interview.
Did one coding problem for an hour on collaborative screen share. The engineer was very nice and answered a lot of questions.
The interviewer was very smart and and showed ways to solve a problem that I never thought of.
Overall a pleasant experience.
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.
