I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Snap (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2024
Interview
Recuiter reached out to me, asked me about my background. Originally applied for software engineer II since I had over three 3 years of experiences but recuiters lower it to one because she believe I did not have enough experience with scaling enterprise level system.
First interview round was with an engineer. I got asked a behavioral question follow by a leetcode hard problem afterwards. It was huge difficulty from the getgo. You really need to prep for months to have a decent shot. I grinded leetcode for just 3 weeks and got destroyed as a result.
Solve this impossible leetcode hard problem that involves figuring out an alogrithms that can crack any RSA encryption in O(1) time.
All jokes aside, it was a question about topological sorting. You have to find manager and employees given a list of their names and ids and print them out in a pyramid sideway pyramid.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Snap
Interview
Recruiter reached out to me and asked to interview. Standard phone screening went well. Recruiter scheduled R2 with an exec. Cancelled the interview at the last minute and exchanged emails for about a month promising to reschedule. Eventually just ghosted. This was also with an internal referral, I can see where they got their logo!
Good. Interviewers are nice. They will provide hints when you are not able to answer the questions. Overall experience is good. I just did not prepare well. ML question is quite basic.