Reddit·Frontend Engineer

Reddit Frontend Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

Seattle, WAPosted Sep 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey leaned heavily toward fundamentals before getting to typical coding practice.

I discussed web concepts like the difference between GET and POST and also covered security topics such as XSS. Then the questions moved into core computer science—what a hash table is and what data structure I’d choose if I were working under memory constraints.

Only after that did the dreaded coding portion show up. I ended up doing LeetCode-style problems that, looking back, weren’t impossibly hard, but I definitely struggled with how I performed under pressure. I also saw a good amount of cultural fit and behavioral questions mixed in, along with system design, and overall the

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