I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Snap (Santa Monica, CA) in Jun 2025
Interview
They were rude and honestly seemed super rushed. Very awkward vibes. Interviewer seemed distracted the whole time and like he didn’t care. It seemed like they wanted to get through the interview as quickly as possible and weren’t truly listening to my responses.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To describe a marketing campaign I managed and how I dealt with obstacles along the way.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Snap (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
2 rounds of technical interviews on ML concepts. The interviewers appeared very junior despite claiming having 7+ years of experiences in ML. Basic concepts such as Transformer and weight decay in ADAM optimizer is new to the interviewer. The interviewers is also not very familiar with the overall architecture of the recommendation system at the company.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Snap in Nov 2025
Interview
Applied through a referral.
First call with a nice and professional recruiter, who explained about the interview process (first technical interview and if you pass it you’ll have a loop of 3 technical interviews).
First technical interview with a software engineer, 15 minutes for behavioral and 45 minutes for leetcode question. Didn’t pass.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find k close restaurants from a starting point, where your map is a matrix of restaurants/ clear path/ wall.