I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Snap in May 2022
Interview
Several weeks ago, I was contacted by a recruiter and offered an interview. We agreed on scheduling a call for Tue, May 10, 2022 @10 am, and both confirmed. No one called or emailed me. My follow-up emails were completely ignored.
No offer
Negative experience
Average interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Snap (Venice, CA)
Interview
No schedule was provided and I didn't know when the process was suppose to end.
The coordinator said a computer will be provided, but nobody knew anything about it. Luckily I brought mine.
They asked a lot of algorithms questions, which are nice, if you just got out of college. A dev who's not doing this on a day to day basis is obviously going to fail unless they prepare and/or read the book. What can you learn about the actual work a candidate does if you're only asking college level questions.
I first refused to interview to avoid these types of questions and was assured by the recruiter that won't be the case. Then 3 out of 4 people who interviewed me asked uncomfortable and not so fun to solve on a piece of paper kind of questions, which I never do at my actual job.
You don't get to meet the team, or see where they'll work and definitely can't get a feel for the culture. I was stuck in an interrogation room (literally, with cellphone blockers and a little window to the hall) for 6 hours. That did not make me want to work for Snap.
They send a generic rejection email.
I'm fine with not getting the job, it wasn't a good fit on my end as well, especially after a bad interview process. However the rejection email was the worst part. The recruiter pushed pretty hard after me refusing to interview, and when I finally accepted - the phone and the on-site interviews went the exact opposite of what he assured me will not happen. And after all that - I don't even receive a phone call or a personal email, just a copy-paste generic text asking me not to ask for feedback.
Disrespectful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked some random edge case questions about the language. Only 1 person actually asked me relevant questions and asked me to write real code
phone screen. Recruiter contacted me through Linkedin and I got connected with the hangout call. It started from usual introduction and then we got jump right into the LRU cache implementation questions.
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Snap (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2019
Interview
For my initial technical interview, the interviewer insisted on a live, two-way video chat with a shared coding session. While this creeped me out, I agreed to try it. Unfortunately I did not have sufficient bandwidth to support that and said so, but he did not want to turn off the video feed and switch to audio-only. In fact, the idea made him visibly angry. So he aborted the interview abruptly. This was unprofessional conduct in my opinion and smacks of entitlement. Thus I would say Snap has "interview smell" i.e. something is wrong with their mindset.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you want to shut off the video feed? Don't you know I am entitled to see you?