I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Snap (Venice, CA) in Sep 2016
Interview
Initial HR phone interview, then a 45 min screen with an engineer with 2 med/hard leetcode problems. On site consisted of lunch with an engineer then 4 hour long interviews. They like you to code on your own laptop instead of a whiteboard (your choice though), which I really liked. Problems are similar in difficulty to Google/Facebook/etc. Note: they move faaast. On-site was scheduled a few days after my phone interview, then I received my offer 3 days after my on-site. Was only given 2 weeks to respond to the offer, so be careful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DP, linked lists, graph, recursive backtracking, and one open-ended design question (Design ____).
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.
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
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.
