I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Snap in Jun 2025
Interview
The first round was a technical interview of 1h with a small live coding task, the second round consisted of a presentation about myself (45 min) and four 1h technical interviews with live coding examples. There were breaks of at least 30 min between the interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement an LRU Cache with very strict complexity requirements in c++. Allowed to use stl containers.
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.
