Reddit Software Engineer interview experience

The earlier code screen mixed in behavioral-ish elements with related-communities, and it ended up heavily tied to graph traversal. After that, I sat down with a hiring manager for a more classic behavioral conversation, then moved straight into design.

The system design rounds were very “build a thing and evolve it” focused. One round was about a high-score style data store, and the other was a web crawler scenario. The final coding round shifted from typical algorithms into a practical “hit counter” style problem, and then there was a thread-safety angle that pushed beyond just getting an