I applied through university. I interviewed at Snap (Los Angeles, CA) in Sep 2017
Interview
There are 5 round interviews including a lunch interview in the HQ. In each round, there are both behavior and technical questions. The difficulty of the coding question is the hard problems compared to leetcode. They will test you the understanding of data structure, algorithm, and time complexity. Overall, it was a really good time talking to those talented engineers in Sanpchat.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
given a list of words and a prefix string, return all of the words that share the same prefix.
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.
