I applied online. I interviewed at Snap in Jun 2019
Interview
I applied for a Market Research role at Snap Inc towards the beginning of June 2019 and was contacted about a week later by someone in HR looking to schedule a phone interview. I provided my availability and we confirmed a date/time for later in the week (Thu @ 5pm EST).
Fast forward to 5pm on Thursday and no one calls me. I didn't think this was unusual since HR professionals' days are filled with phone screens that often run over the allotted time. I wait a few more minutes and still no call. At this point it's 5:20pm and I've yet to hear from the HR rep at Snap. I decide to email him to make sure everything was ok and if we're still scheduled to speak. No reply. The next day comes around and I wait until the afternoon before reaching out again. I figured maybe he was out of the office or an emergency came up and that's why he couldn't make the call. Still no answer. Finally late afternoon on that Friday I get an email saying how he was busy at a conference and had to rearrange his schedule last minute. He mentioned the possibility of connecting later that day or the following week. This was at 6:46pm EST.
I ended up ignoring the email and chalking it up as a missed opportunity. Certainly as a candidate I wouldn't be afforded the same benefit of the doubt if I failed to show up for an interview. This interaction felt unprofessional and reflects poorly on the company. He never reached out again thereby confirming my belief that he wasn't all that serious in the first place. Do not take prospective employees for granted and waste their time.
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?
I applied online. I interviewed at Snap in Jun 2019
Interview
The interview process is first technical round with a Data Scientist(video) which involves online coding on coderpad and product based questions. If that goes fine there would be super day interview with 4-5 rounds
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First 15 minutes was going over the resume, background. Next 15 minutes - coding in SQL and Python/R(language of your choice). Questions were quite simple. Next 15 minutes - A/B testing, scenario based questions. Last 15 minutes were used for final questions.