I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Snap (Santa Monica, CA) in Feb 2019
Interview
I had a remote technical interview with a programmer and manager. The manager oversaw the programmer's leading of the interview. It was conducted with Google Hangout for video & audio and HackerRank for coding text. I was given an algorithmic problem to solve and helped along the way when paused with step-by-step suggestions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was given the problem to write code to find the number of instances of an integer in a sorted int array.
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.
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
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.
