I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Snap (Palo Alto, CA) in Jul 2025
Interview
Tech screening round with coding.
ML design round,
Coding Round
Overall is pleasant. Interviewers could be more energetic. I will not be of best if the other side is not excited. :(
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode hard on topological sort.
Typical ML design question on feed ranking etc.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Snap (San Diego, CA) in Aug 2025
Interview
There was an initial screening by an internal recruiting. The second round was a single interview that involved technical questions, a deep dive into some of my experience, and a coding question. The third round consisted of four interviews that were similar to round two except the went deeper and covered a broder range of topics.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design and implement in C a system that could store records such that individual records could be added and removed with minimal overhead. The system also had to allow searching for a record with minimal overhead. The number of records was not large.
Straight forward interview process
First round is a recruiter call
Second stage is a panel stage split into three face to face interviews
Then either a follow up interview or a decision