I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Snap (New York, NY) in Mar 2022
Interview
I applied through linkedin, and got the call for Phone Interview which consisted of a medium question. I was further called for onsite interview of 3.5 hours. The final onsite consisted of 4 rounds. 1 coding, 2 chat with an engineer, 3 design, 4 coding
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The final round went fine there were 1 coding round of graph question, then a 30 minutes chat to ask about the company in another round. Snap also has a design round which is very strange to me given that I applied as a New grad and also the interviewer in that kept on changing requirements and asked me to develop ML server which I have no idea about, and was also not sitting in a very good environment as her wife/girlfriend kept on working behind him which made hard to concentrate.
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.